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Allerton Park incinerator ‘is only realistic option’ (From York Press)
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Allerton Park incinerator ‘is only realistic option’
8:15am Monday 1st October 2012 in News
By Mark Stead, Political Reporter
THE firm behind plans for a controversial £1.4 billion waste incinerator in the North Yorkshire countryside has stepped up its bid by saying the plant is the only “realistic” option on the table.
AmeyCespa is looking to build the Allerton Waste Recovery Park on a quarry site next to the A1(M) between York and Harrogate, a scheme which North Yorkshire County Council and City of York Council say will hugely reduce their waste bills over the course of a 25-year deal.
It has been fiercely opposed by campaigners, who say the plant is out-of-date, too expensive and environmentally harmful. The Press reported last week how the county council’s own principal landscape architect had criticised the scheme.
But in a fresh statement to planners at the county council – which is set to make a decision on the incinerator by the end of the year – AmeyCespa has said the development was “essential” if North Yorkshire was to meet Government and European targets for waste disposal.
The document said of the 450,000 tonnes of waste collected by the two councils in 2011/12, the 240,000 tonnes sent to landfill was “unsustainable from an environmental, legislative and financial perspective”.
“Available landfill space is a finite resource and is becoming ever more limited – alternative waste management methods are required urgently,” said the statement, adding that the Allerton site would act as a “safety net” for separating recyclable materials caught up with other waste.
“The Allerton Waste Recovery Park is an important part of the plan to increase recycling and driving waste away from landfill. It is the only realistic way in which the councils can achieve combined recycling performance and therefore exceed the 2020 target [the year when at least half of household waste should be recycled or composted].”
AmeyCespa also said existing waste treatment sites elsewhere in Yorkshire would not have the capacity to take waste from York and North Yorkshire in future, and any new facilities – such as those planned in Leeds and Sheffield – would only accept local waste, meaning there was “a continued need for additional facilities, including Allerton Waste Recovery Park”.
Comments(3)
j100wst
says...
4:30pm Mon 1 Oct 12
More Economic, Environmentally Friendly and Viable options are available which do not commit this county to a 25 year albatross for which there will be only one loser, the county's ratepayers, and two winners, the contractors and the banks financing the PFI !
NOXIOUS-SMOKESTACK
says...
2:29pm Tue 2 Oct 12
See Info Link here >>> http://billhoult.myc
ouncillor.org.uk/201
2/09/14/incinerator-
costs-county-keep-mu
m/
If you Object, here are the emails of all the NYCC Councillors, etc >>>
cllr.janet.jefferson
@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.carl.les@northy
orks.gov.uk
cllr.andrew.lee@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.melva.steckles@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.peter.sowray@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.brian.simpson@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.elizabeth.casli
ng@northyorks.gov.uk
,
cllr.herbert.tindall
@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.pat.marsburg@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.mike.cockerill@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.heather.moorhou
se@northyorks.gov.uk
,
cllr.andrew.goss@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.geoff.webber@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.fox@northy
orks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.marshall@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.jim.clark@north
yorks.gov.uk,
cllr.keith.barnes@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.don.mackenzie@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.margaret-ann.de
courcey-bayley@north
yorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.blackburn@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.clare.wood@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.val.arnold@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.batt@north
yorks.gov.uk,
cllr.bill.hoult@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.heather.garnett
@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.michael.knaggs@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.paul.richardson
@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.chris.pearson@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.shelagh.marshal
l@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.roger.harrison-
topham@northyorks.go
v.uk,
cllr.andrew.backhous
e@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.watson@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.david.ireton@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.tim.swales@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.tony.hall@north
yorks.gov.uk,
cllr.peter.popple@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.stephen.shaw@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.mccartney@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.cliff.trotter@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.fort@north
yorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.clark@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.richard.welch@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.stuart.parsons@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.michael.heselti
ne@northyorks.gov.uk
,
cllr.bernard.bateman
@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.andrew.williams
@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.david.blades@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.helen.swiers@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.david.jeffels@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.karl.arthur@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.brian.marshall@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.dave.peart@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.mike.jordan@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.robert.heseltin
e@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.polly.english@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.philip.barrett@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.margaret.hulme@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.neville.huxtabl
e@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.caroline.patmor
e@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.caroline.seymou
r@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.arthurbarker@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.chris.metcalfe@
northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.gareth.dadd@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.ron.haigh@north
yorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.blackie@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.penny.marsden@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.jane.kenyon@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.joe.plant@north
yorks.gov.uk,
cllr.bill.chatt@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
clare.brockfield@bti
nternet.com,
cru.customer.service
s@northyorks.gov.uk,
tsanimal.health@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
waste.management@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
countryside@northyor
ks.gov.uk,
Planning.control@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
policy.development@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
economic.development
@northyorks.gov.uk,
pauline.csd@northyor
ks.gov.uk,
martin@northyorks.go
v.uk,
csd@northyorks.gov.u
k,
emergency@northyorks
.gov.uk,
admin@yorkshirelca.g
ov.uk,
commercialwaste@crav
endc.gov.uk,
info@hambleton.gov.u
k,
buildingcontrol@ryed
ale.gov.uk,
fiona.close@richmond
shire.gov.uk,
streetscene@ryedale.
gov.uk,
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orough.gov.uk,
info@businesslinkyor
kshire.co.uk,
sorted@selby.gov.uk,
ip@northyorks.gov.uk
,
libraries@northyorks
.gov.uk,
nysp@northyorks.gov.
uk,
trading.standards@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
communications@north
yorks.gov.uk,
customer.services@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
highways.searches@no
rthyorks.gov.uk,
committee@northyorks
.gov.uk,
cllr.john.savage@nor
thyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.patrick.mulliga
n@northyorks.gov.uk,
cllr.john.weighell@n
orthyorks.gov.uk,
Richard.Flinton@nort
hyorks.gov.uk,
Helen.Bawn@northyork
s.gov.uk,
Ian.Fielding@northyo
rks.gov.uk,
lisa.cooper@northyor
ks.gov.uk,
Waste@northyorks.gov
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FieryJack says...
10:52am Mon 1 Oct 12
As for recycling, the Environment Agency say that 85% of waste that goes into this thing will be incinerated. That is not a commitment to recycling. Furthermore, the EU are working to make incineration and landfill of recyclable materials illegal in the next 10 years, which would leave taxpayers with an expensive white elephant. The game has completely changed since 2005 when tis project was first mooted. Waste output is going down not up as they projected, people want to recycle and the technology is there. The oil price has changed the financial picture dramatically. NYCC need to swallow their pride, step back from the abyss, go back to the drawing board and listen to a wider range of people than foreign companies trying to get rich quick. There are cheaper, environmentally friendly alternatives to both landfill and incineration. Ploughing ahead with this unwanted and eye-wateringly costly scheme is pure folly