BBC NEWS | England | Oxfordshire | Waste incinerator companies named
The companies shortlisted to build a waste incinerator in Oxfordshire are named.
Viridor Waste Management proposes to a site at Ardley in Bicester, while the Waste Recycling Group chose Abingdon's Sutton Courtenay as its location.
A spokesman for Oxford Friends of the Earth said the county council's decision to tender a contract for the incinerator flies in the face of public opposition and sound environmental policy.
Councillors to visit other waste sites
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
Councillors who will make a decision on whether to build an incinerator in Norfolk are to visit three plants to see how other counties are finding a way ...
Rob Whittle, from campaign group NAIL2 (Norfolk Against Incineration and Landfill), said the councillors should visit a plant which combined MBT with anaerobic digestion, even though there is not one currently operating in the country.
He said: “There is a plant which uses anaerobic digestion in Ludlow and ones which have both in Germany. If they really want to get a rounded view then they should go to Germany. I think the visits they are currently doing will skew the process from the start and smooth the way for the incinerator operators.”
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Viridor are coming to blows with local communities with it's monstrous incinerator plans all over the UK. Scotland, Wales, Cheshire and Oxford
http://www.stv.tv/content/news/local/east_central/display.html?id=opencms:/news/East_Central_Scotland/Health_warning_over_incinerator_plan_20080219
Viridor spin and PR attacks, in Scotland
I'd like to air about a totally inaccurate statements that misleads of the public by Viridor PR man Dan Cooke. Dan Cooke was unscientific and span recklessly with waste of energy spin, that he hopes will bluff his company to win a lucrative and big bucks waste contract, with dangerous yesteryear technology. There is only one epidemiological study done by Elliott, and this was set up wrong. So not many. The only time and time again has been the waste of energy spin that the public are fed up to the back teeth of from waste incinerator companies and organisations like COSTA.
He said "Time and time again government studies, independently commissioned studies have looked at this in detail and experts have carried out research that has demonstrated that there is no link between energy from waste or any other well-run waste management facility and health impact. There are some people out there who are recklessly scaremongering and putting forward unfounded claims."
WHAT STUDIES?
Firstly only One epidemiological study was undertaken by Elliot in the 1990's using old incinerators, and using concentric circle health parameters rather than downwind /upwind studies that pick up, rather than hide downwind clusters and affects. Secondly no other studies have been done scientifically with PM2.5 monitors. THe HPA Nov 2005 report was not a study but a statement of opinion. It did not study or conclude on PM2.5 health affects. Elliott was not independent he was in the pay of the government to justify their then EfW incinerator direction. Dan Cooke spins out these reports "time and time again" that have no scientific basis, whereas Dr van Steenis's 237 scientific references totally prove and back up what he is stating, with US EPA greats like Pope, Dochery, Costa behind him.
Members of COMEAP who prepareed the HPA report it has been proven have all vested interests in the industry, and like Profs. Roy Harrison and Geoff bridges have acted for waste incinerator companies like WRG or Sita. Again no independence. Who pays the piper Dr Mark Broomfield of Enviros Consulting is also in the pay as consultant to Sita and WRG and he bases much of his spin from 1960s PM10 estimates rather than 2000-2007 recent and actual PM2.5 monitoring. Two wholly different things. So no studies Dan Cooke referes to prove or demonstrate anything other than spin makes money from using waste of energy plants.
The US EPA say Dan Cooke is wrong and talking scientific garbage. So do
Italian Doctors federation
Irish Doctors Association
British Ecological Medicine Society
EU funded Nanodiagnostical
Dr van Steenis who has ONS government data on infant mortality to hand, and to quote around every modern incinerator in the UK, and has mapped 10 of them into downwind/upwind wards can and has proven everything he said, more than I can say for Viridors Dan Cooke.
MBT/AD or Autoclaving/Plasma Gsification are the cleaner,present and future, modern viable residual alternatives. Zero waste is fine, has a place in the debate, but doesn't talk the same language for funding or Landfill Directive in delivering tonnage. Falkirk is building an MBT/AD plant (Oaktech using Arrowbio process)
So well done Diana Milford and STV.TV. I hope Richard Locklead and Alex salmond kick Viridors burner planning application into to touch due to their spin and mirrors, rather than the scientific truth.
Rob Whittle
NAIL2
Norwich
Norfolk
Link
http://www.stv.tv/content/news/local/east_central/display.html?id=opencms:/news/East_Central_Scotland/Health_warning_over_incinerator_plan_20080219
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