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!!

Lib Dems back Incinerator - project greenwash

Cardiff libdem/plaid council propose to endorse P Gwyrdd at the 11 June Exec meeting.
MUNICIPAL RESIDUAL WASTE TREATMENT (PROSIECT
GWYRDD) - PROCUREMENT
Full report on the councils website : It happily manages to NOT to use the word incinerator but instead refers to the incinerator as 'energy from waste'.
http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/objview.asp?object_id=14194
Project Incinerator gives no alternative - ie. Lib Rodney Berman
has already agreed it. The incomprehensible report pushes the

1. incinerator ash issue aside, (para 19)
2. the same with wasting the heat energy.

121. Scope of Project: It should be noted that the scope of the procurement is limited to procuring a ....
Residual Waste Treatment Solution only...i.e. INCINERATOR

What is Project Green ....
1.1.1 page 39 Prosiect Gwyrdd (Project Green) comprises a partnership of five South Wales unitary authorities (Cardiff, Newport, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire and Vale of Glamorgan).
The partnership is working together to identify a suitable location for a major new residual waste treatment facility to provide an alternative recovery option to the
disposal of residual municipal waste in landfill. Once the site has been selected it is
intended that a procurement process will take place to identify a preferred bidder to
develop the facility.

Questions to raise

1. Is this risky and costly decision legal?..is it lawful to ignore TAN21 and development plan/waste plan policy
2. Why is MBT excluded in the project spec against Cardiff policy (doesn't meet The Best Practicable Environmental Option BPEO)
3. We want the decision deferred for a special inquiry/scrutiny with public and FoE-technical presence.

Not only is this project report total GREENWASH it is also total gobblygook..
e.g. The Project is aware that it will continue to ‘path-find’ throughout the procurement competitive dialogue procedure with regards to processes in Wales, as such the
Council will seek to ensure that strong liaison is maintained throughout
with the WAG officials to drive forward succinct decision making, thereby
keeping to timetable...and so on.....why not plain english....

Great news for Newport....perhaps they haven't noticed councils changing hands in Bristol over the incinerator.!!! R Berman take NOTE!!!

page 28 3(ii) Recommended site .... is known as Tatton Road, Newport. This recommendation being subject to: a Newport City Council agreeing to the same; and b Participating authorities agreeing to the terms and conditions pursuant to which such site is to be acquired or an option secured, which terms will address, how the same is to be financed by the five authorities and what is to happen at the end of the project life.
INCINERATOR to promote the concept of ECO Village!!!
....between the EfW plant and the Glan Llyn
development to promote the concept of an eco village’. Glan Llyn and / or Corus could
potentially receive all the output from the plant thus precluding the need to export
into the grid.

At their meeting Wednesday, 3rd June Monmouthshire CC's cabinet voted to
stay involved in Project Gwyrdd and proceed to the procurement stage.

Rodney Berman on Scam Green Incinerator