Rodney Berman - What incinerator plans?

Thanks Cllr Berman but you are being rather pedantic! Not funny!! Shouldn't the people of Cardiff be fully informed and consulted now before you spend £1,085,000 having consultants just looking in to it ? I can tell you for free that it is a very bad idea!

Work is at an early stage? Is it Rodney?

When will plans or applications be made to the council for a "energy from waste plant" or to you and me - an incinerator be made to Cardiff council? How do you explain this? Opportunity for Cardiff to lead the way in waste and resource management June 2007....." By recovering energy from household waste, the new facility would provide a substantial amount of electricity to the city."

Energy from waste = a waste of energy. Plastics and paper are the main source of calorific value in an incinerator. Burning plastics, which are oil based,
is effectively burning fossil fuels – the main factor behind global warming. Paper is produced from wood by an energy intensive process. Burning it
wastes energy and resources as well as generating pollution.

How to comply with the landfill directive without incineration Greenpeace Scientific Journal

EXECUTIVE BUSINESS MEETING: 5 JULY 2007 MUNICIPAL RESIDUAL WASTE TREATMENT

REPORT OF CORPORATE DIRECTOR AGENDA ITEM: 8 PORTFOLIO: ENVIRONMENT & TRANSPORT - Reasons for this Report
1. To seek authority for the Council to:-
(i) work collaboratively with up to four other South East Wales Local authorities to develop the Outline Business case and carry out all other pre-procurement preparatory work for the proposed joint procurement of a residual waste treatment facility (Prosiect Gwyrdd),
which is in line with the Council’s Municipal Waste Management Strategy; and

9. The strategy clearly identified a need for a residual waste treatment facility in order for the targets to be met and for punitive landfill tax and infraction penalties to be avoided. ...The emphasis on residual waste treatment – and energy from waste in particular – was given renewed emphasis in the Secretary of State for the Environment’s Waste Strategy for England announced on 24 May 2007.

25. Meanwhile, officers have jointly been exploring the following preprocurement
works: project scope, procurement partnering structure, market appetite, key assumptions, and initial affordability models for each authority, site availability and project timescale.

(Approval to join Prosiect Gwyrdd and undertake pre Procurement work required to procure a residual waste treatment - Indicative date July 2007
Completion of detailed outline business case and other prep procurement work – Dec 2007 )

35. The proposed procurement is based on a notional 300-400,000 tonnes of residual waste- per annum when fully developed, responding to the current requirements of the partnership and the contribution to landfill diversion in the context of the region and the rest of Wales. However, changes in law/policy on a European or national level could have a significant impact on any proposed procurement in progress. Increased levels of recycling would reduce the amount of residual waste. (how does this promote recycling?)

The existing stated policy of the Welsh Assembly Government is:-
......· The overall level of energy from municipal waste in 2013 should not exceed an overall figure of 25%. What legal status this proviso enjoys and precisely what it means (e.g. is it 25 % for each authority or the whole of Wales?) is unclear.

I think we all should be in on this at an early stage. After all this outline buiness case and pre procurement stage is expensive as your council document indicates

"for Whilst this preserves flexibility for each authority, it should be appreciated that the costs of the
procurement exercise is likely to be considerable and if the rights are
exercised to abort the process/not to award a contract, then such
expenditure will prove abortive;"

Programme Manager with
Office £100,000 per year for 3 years

Specialist Advice:Legal, Financial, Technical accommodation £185,000 first year and £600,000 for next 2 years = £1,085,000

EXECUTIVE BUSINESS MEETING: 5 JULY 2007 MUNICIPAL RESIDUAL WASTE TREATMENT "Cardiff Council being authorised to enter into contracts for the appointment of external consultants to advise on Prosiect Gwyrdd (within approved funding levels and subject to agreeing the apportionment of costs between the authorities);"

Construction worker death at Viridor insinerator site

Lakeside Energy from Waste Plant
From the Viridor website..Viridor Waste Management has joined forces with Grundon Waste Management Ltd and set up a joint venture company, Lakeside Energy From Waste Limited, to build and operate an energy from waste plant at Colnbrook near Slough...
The plant will have a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per annum. Investment is projected to be £160m in the period to 2008. The facility will assist local councils in meeting their landfill diversion targets and avoiding penalties under the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS). It will also provide power generation capacity of 32 megawatts of electricity which will be fed into the national grid. The plant will be built at Grundon's strategically located site at Colnbrook near Slough which has relevant permissions and permits in place. The plant is scheduled to be commissioned mid-2008

I noticed that the story of Construction worker death probe was at a waste incinerator site being built by Viridor

Police are investigating the death of a 37-year-old worker from Scotland who was killed on a Berkshire waste incinerator construction site.

Lakeside Energy from Waste Limited said Colin Dickson died after an accident on its Colnbrook site near Slough on Wednesday. Tom Kelly, of the GMB union, said he was crushed by a falling piece of steel which weighed 2.5 tonnes. The site, which has been closed since Wednesday, will reopen on Friday.

'Condolences to family'

But the area where the accident happened will remain cordoned off until the Health and Safety Executive completes its investigation.

The company told the BBC that the only accident since work started in 2006 was a man who sprained his ankle.

"Lakeside Energy from Waste Limited is deeply distressed by this event and extends its sincere condolences to the man's family," the company said.Mr Dickson worked as a crane installer with Kone Cranes, which is subcontracted by Takuma - the main contractor responsible for constructing the plant.

Lakeside Energy from Waste plant is a joint venture between Viridor Waste Management and Grundon Waste Management Limited.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/berkshire/6971097.stm

Published: 2007/08/30 17:21:47 GMT

http://www.wlfoet5.demon.co.uk/waste/incin/colnbrook/colnlatest.htm

Colnbrook Incinerator Campaign

http://www.wlfoet5.demon.co.uk/waste/incin/colnbrook/news.htm

This page gives the story up to Dec 04. See updates page for the latest news.

The story up to Dec 04

For more information and background see monster incinerator.

Grundon has been lobbying councillors from West London boroughs to sign lucrative long-term contracts to burn waste. This would undermine attempts to increase the amount of recycling and to reduce the amount of waste produced in the first place. Grundon and the Environment Agency are denying there is any significant health risk from incinerators, despite evidence to the contrary.

WWF - If you think pollution doesn't effect you

Consultation on help to people to take up individual souces of renewable energy

Lifting the Planning Barriers to Domestic Energy Micro-generation: Proposed Changes to Permitted Development Rights
15/08/07
This consultation is seeking your views on proposals to help residents take up individual sources of renewable energy in Wales by lifting any planning barriers to domestic energy micro-generation. These proposals are contained in amendments to the legislation, which governs householder development, ...

Viridor controversy at Innerwick

£140m incinerator plan angers villagers Scotsman -
A £140 MILLION plan to build a rubbish incinerator about half a mile from a conservation village last night sparked controversy. Viridor Waste Management ...

80% people believe they have a "duty" to recycle

Energy Efficiency
The extent of the green revolution in Britain's households will be revealed today with figures showing that more than 80 per cent of people believe they have a "duty" to recycle household waste.

Findings, to be published by the Office of National Statistics, show a dramatic increase in the number of people who say they have at least one energy-saving light bulb in their homes. The survey found that 81 per cent of people say they have at least one low-energy light bulb at home compared to just over 30 per cent a few years ago.
Independent 14th August 2007

Buy a little green bag as above ..only £4.00

Public attitudes and behaviours toward the environment
When asked for their attitudes about recycling, 81 per cent strongly agreed or tended to agree that “people have a duty to recycle”. Approximately two thirds strongly agreed or tended to agree that “Waste not want not” sums up their general approach to life”.

When presented with a list of actions that could be seen as environmentally friendly, 26 per cent said that they always or often “use their own shopping bags”. However, a greater proportion, 37 per cent, said that they never do this. The smallest proportion, 3 per cent, said that they always or often “do not buy something because it has too much packaging”. Fifty-nine per cent said that they never do this.

Make your own bag!!

Independent Planning Commission

House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 18 Jun 2007 (pt 0022)
18 Jun 2007 : Column 1532W
Planning Policy Commission
Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what arrangements are in place for taking account of the views of Ministers in the devolved administrations in decisions on the Planning Policy Commission, where those decisions potentially have an impact on Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. [142445]

Yvette Cooper: Chapter 10 of “Planning for a Sustainable Future” (cm 7120) explains that decisions on major energy infrastructure projects in Wales presently made by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry would be transferred to the independent planning commission. Decisions on all other major infrastructure projects would continue to be made within Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The commission would consult Welsh Ministers during its consideration of any energy scheme within Wales, including at the decision stage.

The Government will also work with Scotland and Wales to put in place effective arrangements for any cross border projects which need to be jointly determined by the commission and Scottish or Welsh Ministers.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070618/text/70618w0022.htm

Using the sky as a landfill site is not the answer to our waste problem

Using the sky as a landfill site is not the answer to our waste problem, said Robin Harper, a Green Party member of the Scottish Parliament.

New green grants system

A new system to help homebuyers get green grants worth hundreds of pounds to lower their fuel bills and make their homes greener has been announced by Communities and Local Government. This initiative has been linked to the introduction of Home Information Packs and Energy Performance Certificates.

Read Communities and Local Government press release
Npower Renewables has announced plans to reduce the number of turbines for its proposed Gwyn y Mor offshore wind farm nine miles off Llandudno - the original 200 have been reduced by 20 per cent.

Health warning to residents over incinerator proposals

Incinerator NewsIncinerator plan creates toxic waste concerns
FIFE COUNCIL has moved to quell fears that plans for a high tech waste incinerator could create toxic waste. ...Scotland Courier - Dundee,Scotland, By Claire Warrender

Doctor's health warning to residents over incinerator proposals
Hemelhempstead Today - By Jonathan Matfin.
Tring residents could be exposed to gases linked with cancer and birth defects if plans for an incinerator get the go ahead, ...Dr White, who issued his statement at a parish council meeting held in Buckland last month (July) where more than 700 people turned up, said he had based his comments on research by a Slough doctor and a study funded by the Belgian government on the health impacts of a waste incinerator in that country....

According to Dr White's sources, the dust caused from burning waste in recycling plants has been linked to chest, ear, nose and throat infections, asthma and chronic airway disease.

Pollutants from some incinerators have also been linked to higher rates of lung cancer, heart disease and birth defects including spina bifida and cleft lip and palate.

Womens Institute Campaign against Unnecessary Packaging

Take part in the campaign against unnecessary packaging
On 20 June 2006 the Women's Institute held a Packaging Day of Action with WI members returning unnecessary and excessive packaging to supermarkets across the country. Help change the way your food is packaged by taking part in the WI packaging campaign.

WI Carbon Challenge
The WI Carbon Challenge was launched at our AGM on 6 June 2007. The challenge, supported by Marks & Spencer, will help you reduce your carbon footprint. Get tips on how to green you lifestyle and reduce your carbon emissions, or calculate your own carbon footprint using the WWF carbon footprint calculator.

Stop Climate Chaos Cymru
NFWI-Wales is a member of Stop Climate Chaos Cymru. The coalition was launched on 1 September 2005 at St Fagans National History Museum, followed by a political event informing the Welsh Assembly Government of what needs to be done to tackle climate change. Stop Climate Chaos Cymru supported the mass mobilisation I Count event in London on 4 November 2006.

During 2007 the Coalition has been busy lobbying the four main political parties by organising fringe events at each of the party conferences. Marylyn Haines Evans represented the WI at the Conservative Party Conference in Cardiff. She told party delegates that WI members are known champions in their communities and are doing all in their power to take individual action to raise awareness of climate change and to make the necessary lifestyle changes possible within their homes and their communities.
Women are affected differently from men – more women die in climate induced disasters than men and women are likely to suffer the long term consequences because of their different positions and role in many societies around the world"

Green Film Competition

Incinerators do not dispose of waste -

Concerns over public health have been the main driving force behind the Slough Anti-Incinerator Network (SAIN) campaign. The fact is that incinerators do not dispose of waste – they simply change its form, breaking it down into much smaller constituents that are either released into the air as emissions via the chimney-stack, or land-filled as toxic ash from the filter equipment. Amongst the emissions are extremely small PM2.5 particulates (2.5 microns in diameter), which are not yet regulated in this country, as well as larger particles, heavy metals and dioxins.