FEEDBACK #1
We went this evening. No surprises, really; a very slick presentation as expected, but they did not have hard copy of all the information on their boards (They have promised to send us this information).
Questions were answered quickly and honestly; what was interesting was what was not said, or shown. Apparently they say ERF because that is Government terminology.
Fly Ash is called Alkaline Waste (it is taken to Walsall to be mixed with acid waste and the resulting "Ph neutral" waste is taken to landfill; they admitted that it still contains toxic substances, eg dioxins, but that the sites are lined and any ground water is treated and then sent to normal sewage plants!
The landfill site locations are in Staffs & Wales, but the staff could not say exactly where. One board said 10 or 11 lorries going to the site daily, only 5 leaving, so I asked them where they were going to store the others. They didn't see the joke, but will change the display! (I think I know what they MEANT to say).
The video of Chineham is very interesting; stuff goes in, gets burnt, ferrous material gets separated by magnet, but not shown was how the lorries are loaded to prevent dust flying around, or what happens to it thereafter.
The Michigan plasma gassification plant is not used for household waste, and the man I spoke with did not consider that it would be suitable. Also it is not Federal US laws which decree what type of incinerator, it is up to individual states.
They say my gas central heating pushes out more toxins than the incinerator will.
They say that they will bear the costs if the EU requires more stringent monitoring or filtering during the 20 years the plant will operate. Oh yes?
Unfortunately, a lot of people will come away pro-incinerator.
ps. I thought the letter from the Green Party in tonight's Shrewsbury Chronicle was very well written.
FEEDBACK #2
[We] went to the Veolia "do" today. Their claim is that plasma gasification works only on toxic waste liquid, deny that particulates are any sort of problem, and that Dr van Steenis is basically talking out of his sphincter!
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