Prosiect Gwyrdd charges £110 MORE a tonne to burn our rubbish

CARDIFF COUNCIL TO PAY £166 A TONNE while other Councils pay only £56

Prosiect Gwyrdd Rip off to pay far over the going price for Waste Incineration.

CARDIFF COUNCIL TO PAY £166 A TONNE while other Councils pay only  £56 

and to pay this rip off price for 25 years!

Prosiect Gwyrdd (Project Green) rip off applies to all partnership councils  

1. Cardiff Council, 
2. Caerphilly County Borough Council, 
3. Monmouthshire County Council, 
4. Newport City Council and 
5. Vale of Glamorgan Council.

The official survey by WRAP - 2012 Gate Fees Report *- finds that

the median gate fee for energy-from-waste incineration is £65 per
tonne The lowest PFI-type incinerator contract has gate fee of 
£56 /tonne In comparison PG calculated a 25-contract based 
on 2010 cost levels of £36.6 Million for 220 000 tonnes 
supplied to the incinerator (transport costs borne by 
the Councils). This means they were ready to pay £166 
per tonne.

Why did PG think that was a good deal?  Not just that they 
wanted an incinerator built in South Wales, but it was 
based on PFI-costs in England, which have high bank
 charges.  Their scheme would rip-off Council 
taxpayers and provide cut-price capacity for 
businesses at similar rates to those reported by WRAP

Face of Prosiect Gwyrdd
Ian Loyd Davis

Prosiect Gwyrdd excuse the
25 yr-long contract by saying
 we get a better price! 
The officers even guessed 
a 10-yr contract would be 
twice the price, before 
the WRAP figures came 
out.  The evidence of 
these figures is of a 
worse price. Former PG
Steering Cttee member, 
Caerphilly's Colin Mann, 
recently repeated this, 
so did he ever ask for evidence? Seems cllrs are 
being severely  'mislead' by Prosiect Gwyrdd people. 

No wonder Viridor is so keen to build an incinerator/gold 
mine in Cardiff and Veolia trying to build in Newport

The PG comparative cost per tonne is available f
rom the annual 25% subsidy (index-linked )
 approved by WAG of £9.124M in April 2009 
(based on secret OBC ‘Health Check’ figures of 2010),
 making £36.5M total. For the 220 000t pa, this gives
 £166 per tonne, higher than the maximum £131/t 
for new PFI-incinerators given below.  WRAP warns
 that the £166 /t gate fee for PG may not be directly
 comparable with those at older incinerators
 (£32 - £101 /t).  Still £166 /t compares badly with 
comparison with Defra-agreed PFI schemes of 
£56-102 /t (median £76 /t).

 Table 1   

EfW                 Pre-2000 facilities                   £64  median                            £32 to £75 range 

 Post-2000 facilities                 £82                                          £44 to £101

                         Defra Gate fee data [9]

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  200kt to 300kt                       £76                                          £56 to £102

                         350kt to 450kt                        £68                                          £57 to £78

 [9]  Defra information on PPP/PFI projects that have reached contract closure in the last 5 years or are about to reach contractual close in the next 12 months.

*Download the full report - WRAP Gate Fees Report 2012

The Gate Fees report aims to raise price transparency and, 
through improving the flow of information, enhance the
 efficiency with which the waste management market
 operates.  A lack of market information may reduce a 
local authority's ability to make informed decisions on
 waste management options in terms of both economic
 and environmental costs.