Action Outside City Hall, Friday 19th December, 1.30pm

Action Outside City Hall, Friday 19th December, 1.30pm

Press release – Cardiff Friends of the Earth
Title: Green Santa delivers Christmas message from
residents
Contact: Heather Webber, Cardiff Friends of the Earth
Tel: 07504928248
Email: heather.webber@foe.co.uk

Photo Opportunity:
A Green Santa accompanied by members of Cardiff Friends
of the Earth and councillors including Splott Councillor
Gavin Cox deliver a Christmas parcel containing hundreds
of objections against incinerator to Cardiff Planning
Department.

Where: Outside City Hall, Cathays Park, CF10 3ND
When: Friday 19th December, 1.30pm
Opportunity for interviews in both English and Welsh.

Green Santa delivers Christmas message from residents

Hundreds of objections to a massive waste incinerator in
Cardiff are to be delivered to Cardiff council planning
department on Friday,19th December by a green Santa.

Cardiff residents have been voicing their opposition to
a planning application (number: 08/2616) from Viridor
waste management for a 350,000 tonne per year waste
incinerator to be situated in Trident
Park, Cardiff.

Cardiff Friends of the Earth will hand over a petition
with more than 100 signatories from the Splott and Tremorfa
area. Residents here are particularly concerned about
emissions from the incinerator as they
are already subject to the second highest dioxin
emissions in Wales
from the Eastmoors Steel works [1].

More than 100 letters of objection to the planning
application will also be handed in from residents
all over Cardiff who were appalled
at the thought of 256 extra waste lorries every day
rumbling through
Cardiff bringing in waste from all over South Wales.

Heather Webber of Cardiff Friends of the Earth said:

"Judging by the response we have had in such a short
 time, these objections are just the tip of the ice-berg.
People are rightly angered at plans to burn waste from
all over South Wales in an
incinerator in the heart of Cardiff.

This is not just NIMBY-ism, incineration is not a
'green' technology and there is no sense in driving
huge amounts of waste around the country increasing
congestion and pollution. Other, less damaging and
more sustainable, technologies are available that
could be implemented in each local area[2]."

The council planning department have indicated that,
due to the size of the plant, they will accept
 objections into the new year - beyond
the statutory deadline of Christmas Eve.

[1] http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.walesonline.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fwales-news%2F2007%2F12%2F08%2Frevealed-
our-biggest-polluters-91466-20222285/2/
[2] There are cleaner, greener technologies – such as Mechanical
Biological Treatment (MBT) – that can work as smaller, flexible
units, close to where waste is produced, and will recover more
recyclable material whilst producing less harmful waste.