Sack Cardiff Planning Committee Cllrs

Have to confess I missed this! How did this come back? What happened to the appeal to the Welsh Planning Inspectorate? I never heard a thing? Keep it quiet and sneak it through! Cardiff council planning committee members who voted for this big burner are the most stupid, ignorant councillors in the UK - do they ever read their papers, would it occur to them to think of the cost never mind the long term effects of this on Cardiff?   Do they ever ask the right questions, they need a dummies guide to being GREEN?

My dear councillors, Viridor is misleading the public calling this huge incinerator 'Energy from Waste' which is NOT aimed at reclaiming the energy, not being located suitably for uses of the heat,  but has waste disposal as primary purpose.  In the Environments Agency's own phrasing it's a "carbon sinner".

And what on earth are  "transportation infrastructure enhancements"  in Cardiff wanttobe a sustainable transport city?  Will this reduce the carbon footprint of Cardiff - and all the hundreds of lorries trundling through Cardiff from all over S Wales and then lorries trundling out to englansd with toxic ash and this is what is called Carbon lite by that dope Fib Dem R Berman!

“Prosiect Gwyrdd” (project green') -couldn't make it up - Can WAG and Cardiff Council justify, the guarantee of £9 million per year to waste incineration in the Cardiff/Newport area ?

It has been justified as "producing much needed energy".  Yet we know the electricity from one of these large incinerators is pretty small, 20 or 30MW, compared with normal power stations (several 100MW up to Aberthaw’s 1450MW).

Various mechanical and bio-treatments (MBT) are roughly half the cost of incinerators, but WAG’s officials were so set on incineration that they approved the £9 million/year despite adopted policy to minimise waste disposal by landfill and incineration.

They also threatened to make things difficult for MBT by banning use of compost-like outputs for land reclamation, though permitted in England (and meeting the standards for applying treated sewage sludge to land).  At the same time, they proposed to ignore the toxicity of incinerator ash and classify as “recycling” its use in embankments or other construction.

 WAG’s officials rigged the financial assessments to make out that incineration would be less costly than landfill, and ignored the tax-millions coming back.

The answer is an evidence-based waste strategy based on MBT, like Ireland ’s?

 Bristol city council, councillors are more with it, used their brains and went against planning officers recommendations and said NO to incineration and Viridor! HELP!!! Cardiff is in the dark ages!!