Alternative trip to Veolia’s 'flagship' incinerator
Safe Waste in Shropshire has organised a ‘fact-finding mission’ to meet residents in Chineham - home of Veolia's 'flagship' incinerator and to hear directly from them what life is really like with a Veolia incinerator towering over your neighbourhood.
Veolia Environmental Services, who will be applying to SCC at the end of 2008 for permission to build a 90,000 ton incinerator at Battlefield, Shrewsbury, has been taking elected representatives, journalists and residents on tours of the ‘flagship’ Chineham incinerator since 2007 as it is the same size as the one projected for Shrewsbury. There, they are given a tour of the incinerator, a free lunch and plenty of soft-soap about how clean the incinerator is. No mention is ever made of how small particulates are not monitored or the embarrassing leaks in 2003 when black smoke poured out of the chimney. Neither are visitors ever introduced to any local people. Our regular readers will remember Veolia's embarrassing over-reaction when we published a picture of the smoke issuing from the incinerator chimney on this site i.e. they accused us of lying when of course what we had reported was genuine!
The new breed of incinerators, branded 'Energy Recovery Facilities' (referring to the fact that they function as expensive power stations) are claimed to be much cleaner. They are not supposed to emit black smoke anymore. Incinerator salesmen never mention that the invisible, unmonitored, tiny particulates - PM1s and PM2.5s - are the ones that cause real health damage. What looks 'clean' can actually be deadly and the UK government at the moment is doing nothing to change this situation.
When Chris Tomblin, the Chair of Chineham Parish Council, told Safe Waste in Shropshire, ‘Having had one of the "first" new plants we can share a lot of the truth of living with one and it is also frustrating when people tour the Chineham plant and we, the local community, are never invited to meet and give our views’, the group decided that they would give Chineham residents the hearing Veolia denies them. The visit will be fully documented with photographs and recordings and we will share our findings when we get back!
Read more at:
http://safewasteshrewsbury.blogspot.com/2008/03/veolia-seeks-information.html
http://www.netpark-ltd.co.uk/bbac/Incidents.shtml#BBAC-Systems-crash-at-Chineham-Burner-causes-concern
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1895&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
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