Saturday, July 21, 2007

Row over Viridor Waste Management Incinerator in Exeter

Local authority row over Exeter incinerator - As proposed in Cardiff Viridor Waste Management is Devon's waste management contractor and the company hoping to develop the Exeter incinerator..

17-07-2007
Local authorities in Devon have become embroiled in a row over proposals for a new incinerator in Exeter. Councillors in Exeter are meeting today to discuss their concerns that Devon county council's intention to build an energy-from-waste facility on the Marsh Barton Industrial estate, south of the city……............ In denouncing the project, Cllr Connel Boyle, lead councillor for the environment and leisure raised his concerns about dioxin emissions. The city council has claimed that waste incinerators in the UK account for "80% of dioxin emissions in the UK (from regulated emissions)", and therefore needed to be monitored more closel

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