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Incinerator protests planned at council
CAMPAIGNERS are planning a major demonstration outside Harrogate Borough Council tomorrow with its planning committee set to discuss plans for a hugely controversial £1.45bn waste incinerator in North Yorkshire.
The committee is being consulted on the application at Allerton Park, near Knaresborough, before it goes before North Yorkshire County Council later this year.
Harrogate Borough Council officers have recommended it for no objections subject to a number of observations.
But the North Yorkshire Waste Action Group (NYWAG) and representatives of numerous parish councils in the area surrounding the proposed incinerator, are planning a protest outside the council office at Crescent Gardens before the meeting at 2pm.
Peter Topham, chair of the group representing 10 parish councils around the area, said: “This is the crunch moment for getting this application thrown out for good.
“We believe we have got a very strong argument and we are hopeful that Harrogate Council will listen to these arguments based on the information we have provided them.”
Around 10,000 people have now signed a petition in protest at the scheme which is due to go before a planning committee later this year, with local MPs calling on Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to step in.
The £1.45bn waste contract with contractor AmeyCespa is to be paid for via the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), a controversial funding method which the Treasury accepts is in need of reform.
The Yorkshire Post has revealed that it will mean York Council and North Yorkshire County Council will have to spend an estimated £400m of taxpayers’ money on high-interest bank loans to support the construction of the controversial incinerator.
A York Council planning committee did not register any objection to the incinerator plans in December, with 11 councillors in favour and two abstentions.
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Michael Ryan
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 02:38 PMHere's news report showing how Kirklees Council sent a threatening letter to David Andrews of DISC after Mr Andrews had dared to show a slide of electoral wards in Kirklees showing high infant death rates downwind of Kirklees incinerator and low rates upwind of the incinerator. http:www.thenorthernecho.co.uknews4472880.Legal_threats_in_waste_dispute Kirklees Council are now aware that two Surrey Newspapers (Dorking Advertiser & Surrey Mirror) had already printed the same Kirklees map in Jan 2008, which was based on 2003-2005 ONS data. Kirklees Council might not be aware that the Stroud News & Journal of 4 Jan 2012 has an updated map of infant mortality rates in Kirklees' electoral wards: http:ukhr.euincinerationStroud_News%26Journal_maps.pdf
Michael Ryan
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 01:33 PMWhy haven't any MPs in Yorkshire & elsewhere asked the Health Protection Agency why, despite promising to examine health data around incinerators in August 2003 & failing to do so, they've still been telling us that there's no health problems? Here's link to press release of a study that should have been done many years ago & before any new incinerators built. http:www.hpa.org.ukNewsCentreNationalPressReleases2012PressReleases120124Incineratorstudystatement Here's one politician who realises that health data should be mapped out. http:www.dailypost.co.uknewsnorth-wales-news20120130wrexham-wards-have-high-death-rates-figures-reveal-55578-30224181
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