Monday, January 24, 2011

Jane Davidson Incinerator legacy

Wales on line interviewed Jane Davidson   "One of her greatest pleasures, it appears, is that environmental groups rated her highly." WRONG ....Jane Davidson is so wrong - environmental groups don't rate her highly, she is misinterpreting the schmoozing and environmental activists are furious with her. Under pressure to reduce landfill her legacy is incineration -a nasty quick fix to deal with our ever-growing waste mountain and she is makng £millions available for Project 'Gwrydd' to build Incinerators that also produce CO2 under the pretext that they can make electricity from the process! We know the electricity from one of these large incinerators is pretty small, compared with normal power stations (several 100MW up to Aberthaw’s 1450MW) and produces toxic ash and air pollution. Jane Davidson isn't even enforcing a requirement on energy efficiency, despite the Welsh strategy on 60% minimum.Putting off 70% recycling till 2025 means going slow on recycling, when some countries (Falmand/Berlgium, also San Fransico) and municipalities have already reached this level. If you had the courage to step out of the office and talk to some activists Jane - for example Jane Davisdon refused to speak to the Cardiff Against the Incinerator Group.

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