Forthcoming Actions

Wednesday, February 18th 2009 - meeting of the action group at the Ellistown Working Mens Club, Whitehill Road at 7.30pm. The meeting will include an update from Alan Gamble on the current UK Coal Application, proposed housing and traveller sites. All welcome.

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.

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:

Agrivert	Balfour Beatty	BAM Nuttall
BDO Stoy Hayward	Becks & Pollitzer	BIFFA
Bilfinger Berger Projects	Birse Construction	Biogen
Bowmer and Kirkland	Catalyst Lend Lease	Covanta Energy
Cory Environmental	Cyril Sweett Investments Limited	Costain Energy
DEW Construction	Earth Tech Solutions	Envar
Enviros	Environmental Waste Controls	Giffords
Global Renewables UK	Holford Contracts Ltd	HW Martin
Interserve PLC	JN Bentley	John Laing Investment
KELAG	Lafarge	Laing O' Rourke Integrated Solutions
Manches	MVV Environmental	MWH Global Buildings
New Earth Solutions	Orchid Environment	Parsons Brinckerhoff
Pick Everard	Royal Bank of Canada	RWE Npower PLC
Scott Wilson	Shanks	SITA
Tenens Environmental	United Utilities	Veolia
Verdant Group	Walker Morris	Waste Recycling Group

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] click here to read more....
Thursday, April 3, 2008 Leicestershire moves forward with £130 million PFI. [Source: www.letsrecycle.com] click here to read more....
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Second site revealed for incinerator. [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more....
Thursday, September 18, 2008 Residents oppose incinerator plan. [Source: BBC] click here to read more....
Thursday, September 25, 2008 MP backs residents in waste incinerator fight. [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more....
Friday, September 26, 2008 Waste policy is clarified. [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more....
Friday, September 26, 2008 County Hall sees human face of BURNageddon protestors. [Source: Coalville Times] click here to read more....
Thursday, October 2, 2008 £181.6m for project to save 391,000 tonnes of landfill waste. [Source: Defra] click here to read more....
Thursday, October 2, 2008 Defra awards £181.6m in PFI funding. [Source: www.letsrecycle.com] click here to read more....
Friday, October 10, 2008 Village's call for support to fight incineration plan. [Source: Coalville Times] click here to read more....
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] click here to read more....
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Bidders vie to build waste site. [Source: Leicester Mercury] click here to read more....

Media

	Download, print and display in your window our current campaign poster. Click here to download the poster.
	Download, print and complete our current petition form. Click here to download the petition form.
	Photographs now available from the public demonstration held at County Hall on September 24th 2008. Click here to view the photographs.
	Photographs now available from the public demonstration held at Loughborough University on October 24th 2008. Click here to view the photographs.
	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.
	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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