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Incinerator pollution
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Opponents of a new incinerator in East Sussex have
celebrated "one strike for the little person" after
a pollution permit for the facility was quashed.
The Environment Agency agreed there was not enough
detail in its assessment of the site's carbon
dioxide emissions.
It will now redetermine waste company Veolia's
application for a pollution and prevention control
permit. |

The incinerator plan
has sparked a wave of protests in Newhaven
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That process will include protesters in
Newhaven being able to comment on the Environment Agency's
findings again. The incinerator at North Quay - which would
generate electricity through burning an estimated 210,000
tonnes of waste a year - was granted conditional approval by
East Sussex County Council last month.
Judicial review
But local campaigner Nicki Day requested a judicial review
over the pollution permit aspect of the plant.
The permit was quashed by the High Court after the
Environment Agency and Veolia accepted that it had been
issued unlawfully.
The permit will now be reconsidered, but Veolia cannot
operate an incinerator without one.
The agency's Chris Wick said they had considered potential
carbon dioxide emissions, but "we hadn't fully set out our
explanation of how we'd reached our decision".
"Nothing's changed, but we'll look at it again and explain
it in more detail," Mr Wick said.
Mrs Day vowed: "We'll be following every step of the way and
we'll hopefully be there every time to block it [the
incinerator].
"It's one strike for the little person."
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