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.

STOP the Viridor Incinerator & Scam Gwyrdd

STOP the Viridor Incinerator & Scam 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).

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

Is the Viridor incinerator efficient?

It is so Very inefficient – it is called waste ‘disposal’ under European standard

Whoops and what about the DANGEROUS EMISSIONS?

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.

The production of poisonous dioxins

An incinerator of this sort has toxic emissions, particularly ultrafine particles (nanoparticles)

How many lorries will be driving through Cardiff every Day to deliver this rubbish to Viridor in Splott?

Could be up to

260 BIG DIRTY RUBBISH LORRIES

every day

Adding to congestion

And what is the carbon footprint of all this? Send the answer...

Make Wales Green No INCINERATORS

Viridor press release

Time for AMs to prove how green they are - speak out against Scam Gwyrdd - project green and incineration!
Viridor's appeal is likely to go to the Welsh Assembly, so lobby your AM
Council planning committee have thrown out the application for Viridor but the Lib Dems/Plaid Cymru still promoting Scam Gwyrdd = project green and building an INCINERATOR

They work for you - find your MP..AM..cllr

No Again to Viridor incinerator!

No surprise then Viridor has decided to appeal about the incinerator. Their press release makes a clear link between the Cardiff incinerator and Prosiect Grywdd - which is the agreement amongst some south east wales local authorities to combine their waste problem. Viridor wants to drive it all through Cardiff in lots of lovely dirty lorries... probably through Bute park!!

Scotland aims for 70% real cycling, 25% cap on incineration;

Wales aims for 63% real recycling, 37% cap on incineration. Assembly politicians should be ashamed of what WAG is foisting on Wales in the guise of ‘ambitious recycling’. Worrying promotion of incineration WAG Approval of the business case and subsidy for Prosiect Gwyrdd, 27 Jan. 2009: New funding boost for next generation energy-from-waste plant in south Wales The Minister depicted Prosiect Gwyrdd as "producing much needed energy" that would "use waste in the best possible way", despite the consortium claiming their Business case for procuring a ‘solution’ for residual waste is technology-neutral (www.prosiectgwyrdd.gov.uk)

Viridor appeals energy from waste planning decision

19 October, 2009

Viridor has announced it is to appeal the decision taken by Cardiff Council's planning committee to refuse planning permission for an Energy from Waste Combined Heat and Power facility at Trident Park in Cardiff Bay.

The move comes after the city's planning committee went against the advice of its own officers in July and refused permission to build the facility, citing the fact waste could be brought in from other parts of south Wales as the reason....

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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