Fight against waste-burning scheme stepped up
Incinerator protesters call second meeting
Press and Journal, http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1750607?UserKey
Published: 25/05/2010
A second meeting has been called by campaigners in Ross-shire to fight plans by Combined Power and Heat (Highland) to build a £43million waste incinerator at Invergordon.
Last Friday Invergordon Incinerator No To Waste (IINTW) held a public meeting and now another is planned for tomorrow night.
Tomorrow’s meeting will be in the Invergordon Museum at 7.30pm, and there will be a drop-in session every Saturday from 10.30am to 1.30pm to keep everyone updated.
Many in the community are furious after Highland Council’s refusal of the energy from waste scheme was reversed by the Scottish Government.
IINTW chairwoman Tina McCaffery said the reporter’s decision was wrong on so many levels and the community has the right to know some of what was stated in the report and why it is so wrong.
She said: “The reporter, Danny Onn, stated in his report that although energy from waste pollutes and cannot be considered a long-term solution, it is necessary ‘until communities learn to behave in a way which reduces waste to that which can be re-used or recycled.’
“Apart from this being the most arrogant and pompous statement I have heard to date, there are so many aspects to this statement by the reporter that are wrong it beggars belief.
“Most communities are doing their utmost to reduce, reuse and recycle, either via the kerbside scheme, big blue bins or their local recycling points.”
She said it is the manufactures and supermarkets that need to do their bit and added: “It is called extended producer responsibility and is a pollution prevention policy which promotes the avoidance of waste in the first instance.
“We cannot keep on making, using, burning as eventually there will be nothing left. We need to take action and we need to do it before it is to late.”
Fellow campaigner, and author of a song about the incinerator, Ro Goodwin said all over Scotland local authorities are turning to waste incineration, which they see as the only way to avoid fines for sending excessive biodegradable waste to landfill.
He said: “This is despite the fact that biodegradable waste, mostly paper, card, textiles, food and garden waste, can be recycled or composted at much lower cost.
“The crux of the problem is that as a society we have lost faith in our ability to work collectively for our mutual benefit.”
Press and Journal, http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1750607?UserKey
Published: 25/05/2010
A second meeting has been called by campaigners in Ross-shire to fight plans by Combined Power and Heat (Highland) to build a £43million waste incinerator at Invergordon.
Last Friday Invergordon Incinerator No To Waste (IINTW) held a public meeting and now another is planned for tomorrow night.
Tomorrow’s meeting will be in the Invergordon Museum at 7.30pm, and there will be a drop-in session every Saturday from 10.30am to 1.30pm to keep everyone updated.
Many in the community are furious after Highland Council’s refusal of the energy from waste scheme was reversed by the Scottish Government.
IINTW chairwoman Tina McCaffery said the reporter’s decision was wrong on so many levels and the community has the right to know some of what was stated in the report and why it is so wrong.
She said: “The reporter, Danny Onn, stated in his report that although energy from waste pollutes and cannot be considered a long-term solution, it is necessary ‘until communities learn to behave in a way which reduces waste to that which can be re-used or recycled.’
“Apart from this being the most arrogant and pompous statement I have heard to date, there are so many aspects to this statement by the reporter that are wrong it beggars belief.
“Most communities are doing their utmost to reduce, reuse and recycle, either via the kerbside scheme, big blue bins or their local recycling points.”
She said it is the manufactures and supermarkets that need to do their bit and added: “It is called extended producer responsibility and is a pollution prevention policy which promotes the avoidance of waste in the first instance.
“We cannot keep on making, using, burning as eventually there will be nothing left. We need to take action and we need to do it before it is to late.”
Fellow campaigner, and author of a song about the incinerator, Ro Goodwin said all over Scotland local authorities are turning to waste incineration, which they see as the only way to avoid fines for sending excessive biodegradable waste to landfill.
He said: “This is despite the fact that biodegradable waste, mostly paper, card, textiles, food and garden waste, can be recycled or composted at much lower cost.
“The crux of the problem is that as a society we have lost faith in our ability to work collectively for our mutual benefit.”
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