P Gwyrdd and the nominated "available" site at Queensway Meadows near Llanwern.

P Gwyrdd and the nominated "available" site at Queensway Meadows near Llanwern. Newport

The the "study" that chose that site below. The waste heat from a CHP incinerator would be enough for much of
Newport (if this was viable, why not take the waste heat from the existing power stations). If there is no practical
scheme or funding for laying extensive heat pipes, then the whole idea of a single large incinerator (at Newport)
should be ruled out.

UKWIN used the Poyry study to argue this in general

http://www.ukwin.org.uk/files/pdf/UKWIN_Welsh_response_July_2009.pdf.

PGwyrdd_ EvaluShortlist_Feb09.pdf

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Biofuel Power Station protest Newport

Please come to our Emergency Local Residents Meeting to oppose the proposed Biofuel Station coming to Newport - and please tell all your friends, families, nieghbours and workmates to come along too - this is so important.

EMERGENCY LOCAL ANGRY RESIDENTS MEETING

7pm MONDAY 7th September 2009

TIVOLI SUITE (upstairs)

PILL MILLENIUM CENTRE, PILL, NEWPORT.

COME ALONG AND BRING EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO SEE WHY THE PROPOSED BIOFUEL POWER STATION WILL BE SO HARMFUL TO THE PEOPLE OF NEWPORT AND IN PARTICULAR THE RESIDENTS OF PILL.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE:

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/lca_assessments.pdf
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/08/24/palm-oil-paradox/
http://sites.google.com/site/foodnotfuelorg/

write to your cllr if you live in Newport

And here's the letter for you to copy and paste:

(which you then need to add your name and address to).

Dear Councillor

What's Wrong with the Newport Power Station?

A company called Vogen is planning to build a new electricity power station at the Alexandra Dock, Newport, South Wales. Newport City Council is now deciding whether to give planning permission.

The power station will burn 40,000 tonnes of biofuel (vegetable oil) a year, including virgin vegetable oil and palm oil. The power station will lead to increased local air pollution, global climate change, rainforest destruction, extinction of animals in the rainforest, world food shortages and human rights abuses.

If this power station is built:

· Local air quality will get worse –Vegetable oil burning emits nitrogen oxides and small particulates linked to respiratory illnesses and heart problems.

· It will contribute to climate change. Biofuel production releases more greenhouse gases through land conversion and chemical fertiliser use than the fossil fuels they replace.

· It will make world food prices higher as vegetable oil will be used for electricity instead of food.
The power station in Newport will burn over 100,000 litres of vegetable oil (most likely palm oil) a day, or over 40,000 tonnes of vegetable oil a year. If the vegetable oil were produced in the UK (eg from oil seed rape) it would need 10,000 hectares of farmland to grow the crops. This farmland could feed about 35,000 British people on a typical meat/veg diet.

· People in other areas of the world, like South-east Asia and South America could be displaced from their homes to allow the necessary vegetable oil plants to be grown.

· It will NOT provide local residents with cheaper electricity.

So far there are no biofuel power stations in the UK although planning permission has been granted to build one in East London. In Germany, people living near their biofuel power stations suffer noise and smell, and at least one power station there has been refused planning permission.

Also on Wednesday 2nd September Ealing Borough Council's Planning Committee voted on whether to approve Blue NG's Biofuel Power station and all the councillors unanimously voted against it. The main reasons they were against it were to do with air pollution (Southall's air pollution already violates EU regs) and the power station exacerbating traffic in an already congested area. However they also mentioned food prices, the controversy of using biofuels, climate change, land displacement and human rights abuses and the fear that the oil stored on site could catch fire and explode. Blue NG already have planning permission to build the UK’s first agrofuel power station is Beckton, Newham, East London and this would have been their second. The Greater London Authority still have the power to overturn this decision although they do not usually overturn councillors’ decisions.

For more information on biofuels see facts on biofuels and biofuels for electricity.

Also see:

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/lca_assessments.pdf
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/08/24/palm-oil-paradox/
http://sites.google.com/site/foodnotfuelorg/

It would be a great shame if Newport ended up with one of these stations - this is untested and the benefits are unproven - there should at least be a delay in planning approval and construction - otherwise we may deeply regret this in the future.

Also why should the people of Newport, and, in particular the residents of Pill, be treated like laboratory guinea pigs based of unproven benefits?

Pleae reply.

With Kind Regards

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Welsh to burn 37% Scots vote against incinerators

Scottish Parliament vote against large-scale incineratorsincinerators now 'greened' to energy from waste!

The vote in the Scottish Parliament, carried because the Tories voted with the Greens and SNP.
Just one Lib-Dem supported, 6 Labour absentees.

If burning up to a quarter of Scotland's municipal waste is "a failure of the imagination" how much bigger a failure is the proposed Welsh strategy with burning up to 37% proposed !
It appears that the governing SNP had a change in mind when confronted with 25% in their Minister's plan.

*S3M-4348.1 Scottish Parliament: National Waste Strategy (11 Jun 2009)