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!!

STOP the Viridor INCINERATOR again!

Viridor Waste Management Ltd has appealed against the refusal of planning permission by Cardiff Council for a massive incinerator! The appeal goes to the Welsh Assembly.Viridor incinerator appeal to be decided by public enquiry and a site visit from planning inspectorate.

TAKE ACTION today...

Write to the Welsh Assembly Planning Inspectorate
Crown Buildings Cardiff CF10 3NQ
wales@pins.gsi.gov.uk

Objections by 24 December 2009 quoting appeal reference
APP/Z6815/A/09/2113747/WF
very inconvienient timing for the unsuspecting public...

Viridor are planning a massive incinerator in Trident Park, between Ocean Way and the Docks.This will burn 350,000 tonnes of waste a year.

Some points to raise again..

It is too big! Burning waste from all over South Wales
Big incinerator contracts for large amounts of waste have been
shown to reduce recycling rates.

260 more lorries per day on Cardiff Roads!
All day increasing pollution and congestion!

Greenhouse gases - ultra fine particles and dioxins
Incinerators have the highest emissions of harmful substances compared with other waste management options. It produces of poisonous dioxins -An incinerator of this sort has toxic emissions, particularly ultrafine particles (nanoparticles)

Toxic Waste - 120,000 tonnes of waste ash per year!
One third of waste will become ASH. 17,500 tonnes of that will be
toxic and need special hazardous waste disposal.
What do we do with the 17,500 tonnes of hazardous toxic ash?
They expect to send it to England at great cost to dumps with huge local opposition.

NOT GREEN Energy
Generating energy from burning waste is NOT efficient or renewable

Can we use the heat from the Viridor incinerator?
There can only be a WASTE of heat! There are no realistic uses for the immense 70 MW heat, year-round with no back-up supply in the event of breakdown and maintenance down-time. No evidence that Viridor has any real plans to lay costly pipes needed to actually supply any of the heat at all. Against WAG policy

ALTERNATIVES
Waste should be dealt with locally using MBT (mechanical, biological, treatments,) which produces soil and reclaims recyclables.
We need to MAXIMISE recycling and composting

TAKE ACTION write a letter of objection

Write to Welsh Assembly, Planning Inspectorate, Crown Buildings
Cardiff CF10 3NQ

Objections by 24 December 2009 quoting appeal reference
APP/Z6815/A/09/2113747/WF

free guide to appeals from inspectorate..029 2082 3889


Viridor have been encouraged by the promotion of
Project Gwyrdd(project green)

Will it save money building a massive incinerator?

No, it may end up costing us a fortune and tied in to a contract councils can’t get out of.

Viridor cannot build their costly giant incinerator unless they get a long-term (25 yr) contract from Cardiff and the other Councils, who would then not try to meet their recycling and residual waste targets. This has already happened to some English Councils, who find their predecessors signed contracts for more waste than is now being produced, so send their recycling collections too or pay a penalty. Having an incinerator would actually prevent increasing recycling and composting rates at a later date.

FACTS

• giant incinerator 350 000t/yr, over-sized even for the 5 Scam Gwyrdd councils

• domestic waste is decreasing with more recycling,

• residual waste to reduce to 130 000 tons/yr for the 5-authority region

• other waste facilities in other Council areas could and should come much sooner

• Viridor said half their waste for burning would be industrial/commercial – but it’s not needed as their recycling is increasing fast (avoiding the high incineration costs).

Is the Viridor incinerator efficient?

It is so Very inefficient – it is called waste ‘disposal’ under European standard