Waste campaigners are planning to gather in London on Tuesday morning (9 Am – 10 AM) 19th May (2009) to protest against the latest wave of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding for waste infrastructure.
The Treasury’s PFI Project Review Group will be meeting to consider several applications for PFI funding, although officials have refused to release the meeting’s agenda.
It is know the proposed Coventry incinerator is expected to be one of the PFI projects discussed, as their is a rushed recruitment to get a key staff member in position (either through promotion or recruitment) before the day (see more below).
Campaigners are angry that bids for PFI funding contain out of date and inaccurate information that is intended to make waste incineration appear more attractive to local authorities than should be the case.
The Treasury hold closed PFI Review Group meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of every month. The UKWIN website includes additional information about the PFI Review group in an article entitled Find out the latest on your local PFI.
If you would like to discuss arrangements for this protest, please contact EarthMover Award Winner Keith Kondakor by email to pfi@greennuneaton.org.uk or telephone 024 76 344 079
Waste PFI projects currently in the pipeline include
Authority: Essex
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 3
Authority: Bedfordshire
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 4
Authority: Derbyshire
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 4
Authority: Dorset
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 4
Authority: Hull & East Riding
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 4
Authority: North London Waste Authority
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 4
Authority: Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 4
Authority: West of England
Current project status: Outline business case submitted
Round: 4
And if you would like to be a decision-maker, why not apply for a £63,675 – £70,377 job managing the Waste PFI process?
This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of an innovative collaboration between Coventry City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Warwickshire County Council. Project Transform aims to deliver sustainable waste management solutions through the formation of a sub-regional partnership.
Reporting to the Director of Project Transform, your role will be to provide specialist technical guidance to the programmes included within Project Transform and in particular the project to procure a new sub-regional residual waste treatment facility. You will lead the submission and presentation of the planning applications required for the new facility. You will also input to the Project’s communication strategy to support stakeholder engagement and consultation.
With a degree and postgraduate management qualification, you will have extensive knowledge of waste management at both an operational and strategic level, covering both waste collection and disposal and the operation of residual waste treatment facilities. Your proven track record of working at a senior executive level in the public or private sector will be matched by excellent communication and relationship management skills and you will be an imaginative and strategic thinker.
Closing date: 11th May 2009
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I have managed to sort out the police forms and remarkably the Door to the Treasury on horse guards in in the park according to the police. They wish us to protest at the Parliment street doors. As its 51 weeks in jail for doing it wrong then we will go to the side they say!!!!