Important Notice - take action now!
Leicestershire County Council Cabinet are hearing the scrutiny report on incinerators. The meeting is to be held on
Wednesday June 9th 2010
at County Hall, Sparkenhoe Meeting Room at 2pm
After this hearing the council will digest the findings and make a descision what technology to go with at the cabinet meeting which is to be held on
Tuesday June 15th 2010
at County Hall, Sparkenhoe Meeting Room at 2pm.
Unfortunately the public and or press will not be permitted to stay to hear the descision however as a group we can show our strength by turning out in numbers to the start of the meeting.
So come join us and say NO to incinerators here or anywhere else.
We shall be meeting outside County Hall at 1.30pm on both dates. If you can, could you please let Penny Wakefield (pwakefield03@aol.co.uk) and or Alan Gamble (alan@alangamble.co.uk) know if you are coming.
Forthcoming Actions
None.
Online Petitions
No.10 Online Petition - Petition calling on the Prime Minister to to support the people of Leicestershire in the fight against the plans to site an incinerator at Bardon which will effect many local villagers, businesses and also bring chaos to the roads around Ellistown & Battleflat.
Liberal Democrats Online Petition - Petition to call upon the Conservative Leader of the County Council to scrap proposals to site an incinerator in Bardon.
General Information
For information on Leicestershire County Council's Long Term Waste Treatment Project visit this link.
For information on BIFFA's Newhurst Development at Shepshed click here or visit this website.
Also look at the Burning Issue Group's, another anti-protest group against a Biffa incinerator build in Ware, as its full of useful facts and information.
The group has obtained a list of the potential investors, lawyers, consultants, constructors, waste carriers and facility operators who attended the recent open day held by the County Council at Loughborough University. On the list were the following companies:
We have received the following response from Keith Kondakor, FoE:
Global Renewables UK are doing good things in Lancashire. Their plant is more of a recycling plant. It gets quite good reports. Veolia, WRG and SITA are very pro-incineration and very aggressive. - Keith Kondakor, FoE (December 2008)
Research, conducted by Keith Kondakor, has shown that Leicestershire is now the 2nd best county in England for combined recycling and composting rates for the quarter April to June 2008. (Note if you split recycling and composting Leicestershire was 18th best for recycling and 2nd best for composting). For the 12 months up until 30th June 50.18% of household waste was recycled or composted.
It would appear also that the main area where Leicestershire is under performing is the handling of non-household waste. Figures seem to indicate that 90% of the non household waste appears to be going to landfill. The figures show that the council landfilled a total of 164,476 tonnes of household waste however the declared total landfilling was 200,263 tonnes for the 12 months.
Copies of the research data ay be obtained by contacting Keith at web3@greennuneaton.org.uk.
In the Press
Thursday, July 26, 2007 Leicestershire seeks PFI backing for £100m waste plant. [Source: www.letsrecycle.com]
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Thursday, April 3, 2008 Leicestershire moves forward with £130 million PFI. [Source: www.letsrecycle.com]
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Second site revealed for incinerator. [Source: Leicester Mercury]
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 Residents oppose incinerator plan. [Source: BBC]
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 MP backs residents in waste incinerator fight. [Source: Leicester Mercury]
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Friday, September 26, 2008 Waste policy is clarified. [Source: Leicester Mercury]
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Friday, September 26, 2008 County Hall sees human face of BURNageddon protestors. [Source: Coalville Times]
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Thursday, October 2, 2008 £181.6m for project to save 391,000 tonnes of landfill waste. [Source: Defra]
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Thursday, October 2, 2008 Defra awards £181.6m in PFI funding. [Source: www.letsrecycle.com]
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Friday, October 10, 2008 Village's call for support to fight incineration plan. [Source: Coalville Times]
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Friday, October 17, 2008 Lib Dems to help fight possible incinerator plans. [Source: Coalville Times] Sign the online petition by
clicking here.
Friday, October 17, 2008 Protestors wanted to fight against incinerator plan. [Source: Coalville Times]
click here to read more....
Friday, October 31, 2008 Incinerator protests stepped up. [Source: Coalville Times]
click here to read more....
November, 2008 Open Letter from N. Rushton. [Source: Village Talk]
click here to read more....
Friday, November 7, 2008 Petition receives massive response against incinerator. [Source: Coalville Times]
click here to read more....
Friday, November 7, 2008 You must act now to stop the incinerator being built. [Source: Coalville Times]
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Bidders vie to build waste site. [Source: Leicester Mercury]
click here to read more....
Wednesday January 21st 2009, Leicestershire announces PFI long-list.
Read the full article by clicking here...
Thursday August 20th 2009,
Biffa unveils plans for its first waste incinerator [Source: www.letsrecycle.com] click here to read more....
Friday August 21st 2009, Firm unveils incinerator proposal [Source; BBC News] click here to read....
Saturday August 22nd 2009, Fury grows over incinerator plan for Leicesterhsire [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more....
Saturday August 22nd 2009, Friends of the Earth Press Release click here to read....
Monday August 24th 2009, BIFFA Campaigners join fight against waste incinerator [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more....
Saturday September 5th 2009, Leicester councillor criticises plan to burn household waste [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more...
Thursday September 10th 2009, Leicester debates incinerator dilemma [Source: recycle.co.uk] click here to read more....
Thursday December 3rd 2009, Not opposed to incineration but there are other methods by Eric Goodyer,
Charnwoods Prospective Labour MP[Source: Loughborough Echo] click here to read...
Thursday December 17th 2009, Controversial incinerator plans are finally submitted [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more...
Media
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Download, print and display in your window our current campaign poster. Click here to download the poster. |
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Download, print and complete our current petition form. Click here to download the petition form. |
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Photographs now available from the public demonstration held at County Hall on September 24th 2008. Click here to view the photographs. |
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Photographs now available from the public demonstration held at Loughborough University on October 24th 2008. Click here to view the photographs. |
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Watch a webcast of council meeting held on September 24th 2008. The video is long (3 hours +) although you can skip through sections. Agenda items no.8 and 14 are related to to this campaign. Click here to watch the webcast. |
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Did you miss Keith Kondakor's talk at the meeting on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008? Download and listen to what he had to say by clicking here |
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