Archive for October 2008
UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE
To be published as HC 1100-i (see note below)
HOUSE OF COMMONS MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
WASTE STRATEGY FOR ENGLAND 2007
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2008
MR PAUL LEINSTER and MS LIZ PARKES
MR STEVE LEE and MR ROBERT LISNEY
MR PHILLIP WARD
Evidence heard in Public Continue Reading “EA in the dock over incineration without heat capture/use” »
With shares in Veolia Environmental Services falling below 20 Euros senior Veolians are trying to steady investors’ nerves via an on-line broadcast. Veolia’s shares were selling for about € 65.65 a year ago, but they reached a new low of just over € 18 yesterday [falling to a new low of just over € 17.50 today, Wednesday 22nd October 2008] according to a share price tracking website. Continue Reading “Veolia in share price dive” »
Articles have been published in both the Hull Daily Mail and the Yorkshire Post indicating that the Government is considering ‘bending the rules’ to allow PFI money to pay for WRG without going through the usual competitive tendering process. With the cost of the proposed waste incinerator having risen to £144 million Hull and East Riding Councils are desperate to renegotiate their joint contract with WRG. The original contract prevents the councils from seeking Whitehall funding through a Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Continue Reading “Rules to be bent for Hull?” »
Bedfordshire
Outline Business Case for Bedfordshire Energy and Recycling (BEAR) project rubber stamped by Bedford Borough Council’s implementation executive.
See Incinerator gets the green light but not the green backing
and Lib Dems step up campaign to sabotage plans for Rookery pit incinerator
North London
The authority that manages north London’s waste says it has come up with a plan to reduce reliance on an out-of-date incinerator.
See North London to cut incineration
The North London Waste Authority has announced Continue Reading “Another general update (14 October 2008)” »
Responses to some of the questions about incinerator proposals that were put to waste company Veolia by Nottinghamshire County Council Planning Officers months ago have now been made available for public comment by 20th October. Local campaigners have criticised the document as misleading, incomplete and wholly unconvincing. People Against Incineration (PAIN) have also expressed alarm over the County’s growing dependence on Veolia, raising the question of how the County would deal with threats from Veolia to walk away and leave local authorities with no waste infrastructure. Continue Reading “PAIN describes Veolia’s latest offering as “misleading, incomplete and wholly unconvincing”” »
