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‘No incinerator’ pledge by County Hall
NO incineration will take place at a waste site planned for Basildon, the leader of Essex County Council has promised.
Lord Hanningfield made the pledge following claims from green campaigners that county hall had made a U-turn on its promise.
The Echo can reveal a long-awaited decision over plans to build a large recycling and anaerobic digester plant at Courtauld Road, Basildon, is set to be made next month.
Lord Hanningfield said: "The planning application for Courtauld Road does not include any form of burning and never will.
"It is ridiculous the amount of scaremongering there has been."
County Hall submitted a planning application for the complex in August 2006, but it has faced major delays due to fears over its effect on local wildlife.
Another round of consultation over the environmental impact plans has begun before it goes to the planning committee.
Yet green groups maintain a county council U-turn over incineration has taken place and fear Courtauld Road could end up with a whopping incinerator.
They have found reference to a 6,600 square metre complex with a 230-feet high chimney, which could burn 250,000 tonnes of compost from an anaerobic digester a year, in an environmental report commissioned by County Hall.
It has been submitted to the Government as part of a £171million bid for cash to radically change how waste is dealt with in Essex.
James Abbott, Essex Green Party co-ordinator, said: "This confirmation exposes the fact that the county council has made a complete U-turn."
Leader of Essex County Council Lord Hanningfield accepted burning of the fuel may eventfully take place at a similar waste plant planned for Rivenhall, near Witham.
He said: "We don't know what is going to happen over the next 15 years.
"We are going to be spending £5billion on waste disposal and much of that will have to come from private finance initiative."
12:55pm Thursday 8th May 2008
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CommentPosted by: shallotman, Basildon on 9:25am Fri 9 May 08
I wonder how the extra 300 hundred lorry movements a day[these are the consultants figure] around the round-about on Eastmayne / Cranes farm Road will fit in with the existing snarl-up that takes place each day during the rush hour.
I wonder how the extra 300 hundred lorry movements a day around the round-about on Eastmayne / Cranes farm Road will fit in with the existing snarl-up that takes place each day during the rush hour.
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