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BRAINS hit out at Tett comments
BUCKS Residents Against Incinerators (BRAINS) have hit out after a Bucks County Councillor accused another anti-incinerator group of scaremongering.
Martin Tett, Buckinghamshire County Council's (BCC) cabinet member for planning and environment said that he believed that SAVI, a group set up to oppose a possible incinerator in the north of the county, were using scaremongering tactics to put people off an incinerator being built in that area, and said it was a case of nimby-ism.
This has incensed BRAINS, who have fought BCC over the possibility of an incinerator being built near Beaconsfield.
Peter Brogden, chairman of BRAINS, said: "This is not about nimby-ism or some misguided health and safety concerns, as BCC and Mr Tett claim. It is simply a case of miscalculation and a head in the sands attitude of BCC on about every measure you could consider. They are about to make the biggest single economic error in the county's history. What does it take for them to reconsider?
"The financial justification made by BCC for a municipal incinerator, already deeply flawed by their overestimate of future waste volumes, is totally invalidated by the threefold increase in cost to dispose of incinerator bottom ash which will follow on the probable reclassification by the Environment Agency of it as a hazardous waste."
BCC decided last year to put a household waste incinerator in Calvert near Aylesbury instead of near Gerrards Cross or Beaconsfield, but there is a still chance that a commercial waste facility could be placed in the area.
A decision on the location of that facility will be made towards the end of this year, and BRAINS are continuing to fight BCC on the issue.
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They should get on and build it. Why should these posh people have unspoilt views of the countryside? What are the options? Push it on to a poorer area, with scant regard for the people struggling to make ends meet, and compromise their health? No - enough is enough...the Residents of Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross should be made to share not only their enormous wealth, but the burden of recylcliung as well - it's NOT an exclusive club you know!
I am indeed very lucky to live in the glorious Bucks countryside and the proposed incinerator at Edgcott will not effect my view at all but I am against it. Not just in rural England but anywhere in the world. There is an alternative system called Plasma gassification which leaves absolutely no toxic residues, puts a lot of energy back into the national grid and what is left is a gravel that is safe to use. The Plasma gassification plants have not been banned anywhere in the world and there are about 287 of them up and running & there will be one in Swindon soon. The proposed incinerator is of a type that is illegal in various european countries, Canada and the USA to name just a few places. We are not second class citizens, our council owes us a duty of care to ensure they operate in our best interests and following the decision in the Corby case this week I think BCC must think again about this incinerator.
Duh!! Sorry SW but you seem to have missed the point.
The real issue is that Bucks CC is planning to build something thats going to waste lots of residents money (rich and poor). Even the government, via the Audit Commission reckon that this type of solution is not value for money.
BCC need to reassess their options using up to date information and prove their proposal makes economic sense. At present it does not!!
Homer is right, Bucks County Council have been told that there is a cheaper way of sorting out the waste. I heard this on the BBC Radio only last week and that Bucks County Council will waste over £50 Million of our money if they build a waste incinerator. Me thinks something very odd here and perhaps someone should investigate the council.... There's so much money at stake and it would not surprise me if the people making the decision have been bought by these companies looking to build incinerators and the banks putting up the money
Just to let you know that the opinion that everyone in Gerrards Cross and Beaconsfield are millionaires is not true. Quite a high percenatge/myself included are no wealthier than the national average. You cannot tar everyone with the same brush!
How much people make should not come into it and the decision will be based on the merits of the sites in question!