Anti-Incinerator Petition and Protest
Dave Cullen | 05.01.2008 02:29 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Oxford
Oxford County Council are having a crucial debate on whether to build an incinerator in Oxfordshire. Oxford Brookes People & Planet & Oxford FoE have put together an online petition and will be protesting outside.
Brookes People & Planet and Oxford FoE have been campaigning against plans to build an incinerator plant in Oxfordshire. At present the Oxford Times is reporting that the Council has decided to choose an incineration option (
http://tinyurl.com/389mh2), but no final decision has been made. The way the council has tendered for the contract have made it virtually certain that incineration will be the preferred technology, although official council policy is to stay 'technology neutral'. Other technologies exist which could be deployed, and several councils in the UK have decided against incineration, but in Oxfordshire these have not been given a serious look in. This is not set in stone, however and some of the councillors are making a fuss about how the decision has been made behind closed doors.
There is a debate of all County Councillors next Thursday (January 8th), at which the subject will be discussed, and already a lot of councillors are complaining that the decision has already been taken without proper consultation. There is still quite a lot of scope for public pressure to have an effect as the bidding process is still in the shortlisting stages. We have put together a petition which we will present on the 8th, and
there will be a peaceful demonstration of feeling outside. Please pass on the link to the petition to as many people as possible, and get in contact if you would like to join us on the 8th.
The online version of the petition is here - please sign and pass on to as many people as you can:
http://www.petitiononline.com/oxincin7/petition.html
We have also put together a website with a lot of further information:
http://ox-incinerator.freehostia.com/
http://tinyurl.com/389mh2), but no final decision has been made. The way the council has tendered for the contract have made it virtually certain that incineration will be the preferred technology, although official council policy is to stay 'technology neutral'. Other technologies exist which could be deployed, and several councils in the UK have decided against incineration, but in Oxfordshire these have not been given a serious look in. This is not set in stone, however and some of the councillors are making a fuss about how the decision has been made behind closed doors. There is a debate of all County Councillors next Thursday (January 8th), at which the subject will be discussed, and already a lot of councillors are complaining that the decision has already been taken without proper consultation. There is still quite a lot of scope for public pressure to have an effect as the bidding process is still in the shortlisting stages. We have put together a petition which we will present on the 8th, and
there will be a peaceful demonstration of feeling outside. Please pass on the link to the petition to as many people as possible, and get in contact if you would like to join us on the 8th.
The online version of the petition is here - please sign and pass on to as many people as you can:
http://www.petitiononline.com/oxincin7/petition.html We have also put together a website with a lot of further information:
http://ox-incinerator.freehostia.com/
Dave Cullen
e-mail:
05066191@brookes.ac.uk
Homepage:
http://ox-incinerator.freehostia.com/
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Hole in Friends of the Earth analysis
06.01.2008 01:00
What this misses is that by 2020, the marginal emissions from network gas will closely follow those of imported LNG (liquefied natural gas), which has life cycle emissions 50% greater than North Sea gas, also according to Friends of the Earth:
The upshot is that the technologies listed with the least pro rated CO2 emissions by 2020 would be incineration for heat and CHP. As the Dirty Truths report states, emissions are higher for some biogenic wastes; there are widely varying trade-offs between incineration, recycling, burial and (where applicable) anaerobic digestion for different waste types.
There is incineration-CHP plant planned for 1 mile upwind of me in NW London, to be powered by local waste, sorted for hazardous content according to the brochure.
I suggest this may be the direction to steer authorities toward, smaller units for heat or CHP, with a high chimney.
Oppose liquid-fuelled CHP units like the plague, whether they use veg-oil (biofuel) or mineral oil. The marginal CO2 emissions and/or opportunity cost are particularly high for this resource family.
jimroland
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