Clive Bates WAG Spin Doc

Clive Bates started as Director General for Sustainable Futures at the Welsh Assembly Government in March 2009, and paid £130k pa to front letters to the local press! ** Let’s recover energy from our waste letters to South Wales Echo Jan 20 2011 "IN THE interests of an open, honest conversation about how we deal with our rubbish..... "

Clive Bates CV coming through Greenpeace to become an apparachik, now declaring waste-to-energy is “best” ? *1990s worked for Greenpeace on energy and climate change, then became Director of ASH
* 2003 to Tony Blair's strategy unit
* 2005 head of environment policy at the Env AgencyRecently in 2010 became"Director General Sustainable Development" WAG. This grand title denotes the recent new layer of civil servants – Wales has appointed three @ £130k salary.
How does a guy with Greenpeace pedigree and understanding greenhouse gas complexities come to endorse the incineration industry line – that burning waste helps “to tackle climate change” in the local paper (S W Echo, 20 January**)? He repeats another canard: “energy from waste installations are regulated to stringent European standards, including those related to health” which of course comes from an Environment Agency blind to nanoparticles.