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The
Nottinghamshire County Council and the waste company Veolia,
have failed to site the proposed incinerator at the Crown
Farm site Forest Town. They failed in the planning
application. This site was their preferred and first choice.
The second choice was the old Bentinck Colliery site, in
Sutton in Ashfield. This has failed due to the fight with
the NO LAND FILL campaign. A third site was then proposed as
the Old Rufford Colliery site Rainworth. The agreement was
to site an incinerator in the Mansfield & Ashfield Areas.
However this agreement has now been broken. A planning application is in
the process of being made for the Rainworth Site.What has NOT been disclosed by
both The Nottinghamshire CC & Veolia is that these type of
projects have very serious implications to human life,
wildlife, plants and fauna plus global warming. It
could also
breach the
Human Rights Act 1998 Article 8.
This money making project flies in the face
of the
G8
Conference to reduce carbon footprints. It
produces Fly Ash which is highly toxic, plus standard toxic
ash which if it gets wet, leaches into the water courses.
Smoke from the stack even though filtered, still produces
toxic waste such as dioxin. To give you an idea of how much
an incinerator produces here is an extract from
"
Five
Popular Myths about Incineration"
Although there has been much attention given to dioxin,
more "conventional" emissions from incinerators have been
largely ignored. For pollutants such as particulates (soot)
or carbon monoxide it is difficult to find a comparison to
give an idea of the size of discharge an incinerator
represents. It is therefore necessary to convert the figures
to some other meaningful quantity. If we consider an average
200,000 to 250,000 tonne per year incinerator, the
particulate emissions from the chimney are around 100 kilos
per day. That is equivalent to 1.7 million diesel
vehicles travelling down a road EVERY HOUR.
In addition these things
exploded... The last was the
Kirklees disaster in
Huddersfield on 22nd September 2006
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