Prosiect Gwyrdd RIGGED for incineration

PG's deception campaign!!
By allowing only a short time over Xmas for bids, they'll hope that only the incinerator companies they've been encouraging would get bids in.

Deception

Prosiect Gwyrdd – financial unsoundness hidden

The cost of "do minimum" landfill is cheaper!!! And with MBT it could come down further.
But it seems there is no problems of tight Council budgets and a bankrupt economy for these South Wales councils!
They ignore criticisms of this £1100 million PFI project. What right have our Cllr to mortgage our communities for 25-30 years*? They are going for Private Finance over 25-30 yr, despite cross-party opposition in Wales to high cost, inflexible PFI!

RIGGED for incineration

Not GREEN - They claim they have not chosen technology, yet the prospectus advertised by P Gwyrdd has been rigged to attract large incinerator companies and fix a long-term commitment to incineration, instead of cheaper low-tech mechanical and biological treatment systems.

PGwyrdd has made a mockery of Stakeholder participation, with only two from FoE but scarcely
anyone else as ‘public’ stakeholders at their 7th Sept. event. The rest are council officials etc!!

P Gwyrdd claimed to meet Welsh Strategy targets, but there is no mention of the maximum residual waste per person of 150kg, which means 125 000 tonnes maximum compared with their guide figure of 160 000 tonnes
(35% of 460 000t).

They’ve told Councils to claim to the public that they aim to “recycle and compost as much waste as possible”.
Yet the 65% falls far short of that claim, being less than already achieved in Europe, eg. Flanders, and far below the 80-90% figures said possible by their consultants.

They say nothing about toxic residues from waste combustion and the requirement under the proximity principle to have an outlet in SE Wales (they bother to offer help over waste transfer stations but not over a disposal site).

They set no requirement on energy efficiency, despite Welsh strategy on 60% minimum.

*Friends of the Earth from experience in England warns us against long-term waste deals with private companies (Long waste contracts www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/long_contracts.pdf).
http://cardiffincinerator.blogspot.com/

Project greenwash propaganda campaign

PG's propaganda campaign!!

No problems of tight Council budgets and a bankrupt economy for these South Wales councils!
The procurement ignores criticisms of this £1100 million project.
What right have our Cllr to mortgage our communities for 25-30 years?
They are going for Private Finance over 25-30 yr, despite cross-party opposition in Wales to high cost, inflexible PFI!

P Gwyrdd claimed to meet Welsh Strategy targets, but there is no mention of the maximum residual waste per person of 150kg, which means 125 000 tonnes maximum compared with their guide figure of 160 000 tonnes
(35% of 460 000t).

They’ve told Councils to claim to the public that they aim to “recycle and compost as much waste as possible”.
Yet the 65% falls far short of that claim, being less than already achieved in Europe, eg. Flanders, and far below the 80-90% figures said possible by their consultants.

They say nothing about toxic residues from waste combustion and the requirement under the proximity principle to have an outlet in SE Wales (they bother to offer help over waste transfer stations but not over a disposal site).

They set no requirement on energy efficiency, despite Welsh strategy on 60% minimum.

PGwyrdd has made a mockery of Stakeholder participation, with only two from FoE but scarcely
anyone else as ‘public’ stakeholders at their 7th Sept. event. The rest are council officals etc!!

They claim they have not chosen technology, yet the prospectus advertised by P Gwyrdd has been rigged to attract large incinerator companies and fix a long-term commitment to incineration, instead of cheaper low-tech mechanical and biological treatment systems.

Friends of the Earth from experience in England warns us against long-term waste deals with private companies (Long waste contracts www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/long_contracts.pdf).

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

Prosiect Gwyrdd/project green scam consultation

CONSULTATION?

September stakeholder day. Key stakeholders were invited...

yet out of the 80 invitees, there were about 4 from NGOs (one community Council)

the rest being Cllrs, officials and industry. Where is the report/minutes?

But someone realised the mistake of pretending agreement on the

proposed arbitrary percentages, and devised this new process.

Prosiect Gwyrdd NEW SURVEY http://www.surveys.cardiff.gov.uk/prosiectgwyrdd2/
The whole process is designed to avoid real practical options.

One can't in this survey vote for carbon minimisation being given overall priority,

you can't say anything against the production of toxic ash,

or ensuring meeting the proximity principle,

the waste hierarchy and
other requirements in the Waste Plan (stemming from Euro-legislation).

The more PGwyrdd departs from the Welsh and Cardiff's waste policy, the greater

their vulnerability to legal challenge.