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Approved Incinerator Expansion Paves Way For Direct Action

Notts IMC | 26.02.2009 22:56 | Ecology | Health

"This is a very sad day for the residents of Nottingham, a sad day for democracy and a sad day for our environment".

Jon Beresford, spokesman from Nottingham Against Incineration & Landfill (NAIL) is not impressed. Local residents and NAIL have been fighting plans to expand Nottingham’s Eastcroft incinerator for the last 4 years. Democracy has been given a severe blow when the government recently over ruled Nottingham City Council and given the green light (or not so green) for Waste Recycling Group’s Planning Application to expand the facility and pollute our environment with more toxic substances and global warming gases.

The government has given the go ahead suggesting that the third incinerator will help fight climate change. "This will help fight climate change no more than building a third runway at Heathrow" argues Beresford. "This throws the governments Climate Change Policy into complete nonsense". Waste Recycling Group, owners of Nottingham’s Eastcroft incinerator originally applied to incinerate an additional 150,000 tonnes (250,000 tonnes total) of waste a year by building a third line in Nottingham City Centre.

Latest: Eastcroft, the end of the campaign?

Video: The NAIL film (10 min. various formats) | NAIL Slideshow (avi 9M)

Feature articles: Planning Officer Recommends Rejections of Incinerator Expansion | Council backs off from incinerator expansion decision | Incinerator Public Meeting - Public Bodies pull out! | Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill campaigners hand in petition | Planning Officer insists on wider public consultation for incinerator expansion | Campaigners meet Environment Agency over incinerator | Sneinton's Rubbish Day Out 1 - The Days Events | NAIL campaign 'banner drop' at Sneinton Boulevard | NAIL campaign hammers on... | The air that we breathe...

Links: NAIL Website | Waste Recycling Group | View planning application

Protest at Council House before the planning committee votes, September 06
Protest at Council House before the planning committee votes, September 06


The existing incinerators in Nottingham regularly breach licensed emission levels and they have received many warning by the Regulator, the Environment Agency, yet they allow them to continue to risk the health of the residents and pubic. Despite the fact that the plant burns waste that we should be recycled, it emits huge amounts of toxic substances, global warming gasses and breaches its emissions licence, the Government has given it the go ahead. This says volumes for the Governments attitude to big business and Joe public.

Audio: NAIL Public meeting and debate (1hr 20mins - 32kbs, 19Mb) | You can't do that here! NAIL banner drop (mp3 911K)

Notts IMC

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NAIL's Position

08.03.2009 22:36

We are opposed to the principles of incineration as there are far more environmentally friendly and sustainable ways of dealing with our waste, without resulting to burning it for the sake of profit. Incineration is a waste of this valuable resource, a resource that should be recycled. Incineration is a process that is poorly regulated and highly polluting. Even whilst the Government was making its decision, the incinerator continued to breach its emission levels and WRG received yet another warning from the Environment Agency, to add to their growing collection.

What is most unbelievable about the Governments support for this incinerator is that Hazel Blares, the Secretary of State who made the decision, do so on the grounds that it will help the Government meet its climate change policy!

This shows the complete and utter disconnection between what the Government says and what it does. The Government claims that Climate Change is the greatest threat we all face and has set itself challenging targets to reduce emissions, but yet again they have demonstrated that protecting the interest of big business is more important that the fate of our planet.

NAIL submitted to the Public Inquiry evidence that demonstrated that the incinerator was no better for the climate that landfill, despite WRG’s claims. The Government has ignored this in its ruling. If the Government really believed that burning waste, rather than recycling was good for the environment, at minimum they would have imposed a condition on the expansion that WRG should connect the incinerator to the district heating scheme, something that WRG refused to do when challenged by NAIL at the Inquiry. This effectively means that the heat generated from burning the waste will be released into the atmosphere and wasted, making it an electricity only incinerator, and extremely inefficient and hardly ‘climate friendly’.

The only conditions imposed by the Hazel Blears were in connection with lighting, soft landscaping and the chimney colour, not what comes out of it!

Next Steps

This is not the end of the road for our campaign, we have come this far and until now won every hurdle. We have instructed our lawyers to review evidence submitted by NAIL at the Inquiry with a view to appealing the decision. Our intention, subject to our lawyers advice, is to take the Government to the High Court to overturn this outrages decision.

Although we have a strong case, if we are to take this course of action we are fighting the Government and could face a huge legal bill and so this is also being considered by our Lawyers, we hope to announce our decision within the next few days.

We have contacted the City Council and have urged them to take this to the High Court, to challenge the legality of the decision. The City have also instructed their legal team and also hope to have a decision within the next few days.

Unless challenged by NAIL, the Council or both, Nottingham's third incinerator will be built against Nottingham’s wishes.

NAIL
- Homepage: http://www.nail.uk.net


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