Archive for the Shepshed Against Incinerator Group (SAIG) Category
On Tuesday the 15th of June activists from Leicester Friends of the Earth, Loughborough Friends of the Earth, the Shepshed Anti-incinerator Group (SAIG) and the Ellistown & Battleflat lobbied Leicestershire County Council’s cabinet meeting, to urge them to think again about plans for a giant incinerator to burn the County’s waste. Continue Reading “Campaigners rally against incineration in Leicestershire” »
Residents of the Leicestershire village of Shepshed have formed a campaign group, known appropriately as the Shepshed Against Incinerator Group (SAIG). SAIG have launched a website at http://www.saigcampaign.co.uk/ and a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=170839581844&ref=ts.
Their website explains:
The Shepshed Against Incinerator Group (SAIG) was formed to campaign against the proposal to build a Waste Incinerator at Newhurst Quarry Shepshed. We believe that everyone has the right to breathe clean, fresh air, free from the toxins that would be emitted from an incinerator, should one be built. The emissions would eventually fall to earth contaminating soil and polluting the environment.
SAIG are asking supporters to sign their petition and to submit planning objections to Biffa’s application (Application Number: 2009/2497/02). Details of the application are available from the Leicestershire County Council website, and Leicestershire’s adopted Waste Core Strategy is also available.
Shepshed Town Council will be holding a hastily arranged and under-publicised public meeting about the incinerator at 7.00pm today (Wednesday 10th February 2010) at the Council offices on Charnwood Road, and Leicestershire County Council plan to hold a Public meeting to discuss Biffa’s incinerator plans on Monday evening 8th March 2010 at Shepshed High School, from 7pm.
