According to a recent Berwickshire News article entitled Revised plans for Viridor incinerator discussed, Viridor’s original plans for a waste incinerator at Oxwellmains “sparked a real difference of opinion when they were first announced last year”. The plans were dropped and Viridor “has since gone back to the drawing board” and the proposed plant is now “a third smaller than the original proposal to take waste from Edinburgh, Mid Lothian and East Lothian and no longer includes West Lothian and the Borders”.
[The proposed facility would] also take regional residual commercial and industrial waste from the three areas. It is now proposed to have two process lines rather than the original three carrying 150,000 tonnes per annum each. In the wake of the original plans being submitted, a local pressure group was set up, IRATE (Incensed Residents Against Toxic Emissions).
Visit the IRATE website for more!
