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Firm relights bid for waste incinerator



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WASTE firm Viridor has unveiled plans for a new incinerator in the Lothians two months after withdrawing its original proposals.
The company wants to build an "energy from waste" processing plant near Dunbar capable of handling 300,000 tonnes of waste – 150,000 tonnes less than its previous plan.

Viridor withdrew the original plans in March, following tough new Scottish Government limits on the amount of waste that could be burnt.

Dan Cooke, external affairs manager at Viridor, said: "The revised proposals will provide a safe and efficient way of dealing with residual waste from which the recyclable materials have been removed, through a stringently regulated and well-maintained facility.

"The revised proposals also address local views from the public consultation, keen to see a smaller facility that is less reliant on road transport."

Viridor had originally hoped the plant would burn up to 50 per cent of waste in the Lothians by 2020, producing electricity. However, these plans were thrown into doubt when Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead announced a cap on incineration in January.





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  • Last Updated: 14 May 2008 11:06 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Environment , East Lothian
 
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Michael Ryan,

Shrewsbury 14/05/2008 13:52:40
Perhaps Dan Cooke would tell us the names of which incinerator(s) around which he, or anyone else, has examined the rates of illness and premature deaths at electoral ward level and then compared the upwind and downwind zones to prove that there is no worsening of health in the downwind zone?

I've asked Justin McCracken, the Chief Executive of the Health Protection Agency, for such a list and his letter to me dated 1 May 2008 confirms that the Health Protection Agency have not examined any relevant data around any incinerator.

The Health Protection Agency base their opinion that incinerators do not harm health upon estimations of emissions and also estimates of health damage from the estimated emissions.

If the Evening News wishes to see my FoI request to the Health Protection Agency about incinerators and the reply from Mc McCracken, please e-mail me.

Kind regards,

Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury
2

Listening,

14/05/2008 17:19:58
OK, we'll just leave all the crap lying around and put it in landfill to cause probelms later.

The plant would probably be located near Torness power station and the cement works, bad combination so close to each other, so there won't be much of a difference.

I remember a fisherman telling me a few years ago about the deformed catches he was getting off the Dunbar coast.
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Michael Ryan,

Shrewsbury 16/05/2008 15:50:49
"Listening" should have realised that there's a safer and cheaper alternative to both incineration and landfill.

It's called plasma gasification and has a nett cost that's about one hundred pounds per tonne less than incineration when the health damage costs from incineration are included.

In St Lucie County, Florida, they're using plasma gasifcation to get rid of an existing landfill site as plasma gasification leaves just inert vitreous gravel which can be used safely as road base etc.

Kind regards,

Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury
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Charles Coston,

Invergordon 05/06/2008 11:46:45
TNEI are currently applying for planning permission as Highland CPH, in Invergordon as well as in Peterhead under Buchan CPH.

My wife and I have read with interest your Parliamentary statement along with information by Dr Dick Van Steenis. We have also looked at other reports from around the world that support your own findings, including the 4th Report of ‘British Society for Ecological Medicine’ Moderated by Dr Jeremy Thompson and Dr Honor Anthony entitled “ The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators”.

We have been raising local awareness within the local & wider community. We have begun a petition which has gained momentum over the last week or so. A community council meeting last night, gave us the opportunity to present our findings which included to a large degree, the study work that Mr Michael Ryan and Dr Van Steenis have carried out in the UK. This information was of interested to the local community council, who up to that point it seems, only to have been ‘drip feed’ with the information that the local Highland Council Authority wants them to know, which included pointing to the Incinerator in the middle of Vienna.
TNEI’s own report on Air Quality, which is part of their supporting documentation for the planned Incinerator already states that because of a recent planning application by BALAS for a CHP wood pellet factory next door “ The results of the cumulative assessment of emissions from the two plants show that predicted ground level concentrations are within the relevant air quality objectives for all pollutants except one ( particular matter, specifically ‘PM10’,where the long -term (annual mean) objective is exceeded. So, even before we argue the case for PM2.5, they are breaking the levels for what they do monitor,which is PM10.
I have suggested to the community Council that we arrange a public meeting sooner rather than later, and invite the owner from TNEI along with the, Dr advising the Highland Council and either Mr Michael Ryan or D

 

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