Incinerator update

Posted on April 15, 2010. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Energy, Incinerator, NYCC, waste strategy |

I have received the following letter from Richard Flinton, North Yorkshire County Council’s Director of Environmental Services, in response to my enquiries about the energy from waste contract:

Dear Ms Kelley

As you are aware, North Yorkshire County Council and City of York
Council are jointly tendering for a long term solution for the treatment
of residual municipal waste. 

A range of solutions have been developed by the companies tendering and
we have evaluated proposals on their merits against pre determined
evaluation criteria that balance cost with environmental and quality
considerations. We have not specified the approach or technology that is
to be used, and we can not pre-judge what the outcome of this process
will be but proposals are expected to have regard to our joint waste
strategy. 

Final tenders have been received and we are in the process of
identifying our selected partner. The final stages of this procurement
involve the development of an agreement with the selected partner to
formally confirm their status as preferred bidder and outline the
obligations on both parties leading up to formal award of the contract. 
The PFI process requires us to work closely with the Waste
Infrastructure Delivery Programme (involving representatives from both
H.M. Treasury and DEFRA) during this time to satisfy them that the
requirements for award of £65million of PFI credits are met. Until such
time as WIDP confirm their approval we will be unable to make any
further public announcements but I am hopeful that I will be able to
bring further clarification to the outcome of this process in the coming
weeks. 

As you point out, the decision to award the contract will clearly be a
Key Decision and as such will need to be formally publicised in the
Council's Forward Plan with an appropriate notice period to enable
people with an interest in the decision to ask questions and make their
views known. Any proposal for new waste treatment facilities will of
course also be subject to normal regulatory consents including detailed
planning permission and granting of a permit to operate by the
Environment Agency.

Yours sincerely

Richard Flinton
Corporate Director
Business and Environmental Services
North Yorkshire County Council

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20th April 2010

ALLERTON QUARRY, NORTH YORKSHIRE – PROPOSED INCINERATOR.

Please take a moment, to click and view the link I have provided below, it takes you to a Devon website and video presentation
by a visiting Environmental Professor, Professor Paul Conett made, It’s about a proposal (In Ivybridge, Devon) similar
to the North Yorkshire County Council proposal for an Incinerator and Chimney for (amongst other sites) Allerton Quarry next to the A1
close to the junction of the A59.

http://www.ecoivy.org/

The video runs about 18 mins, it’s packed with well researched & well supported Incinerator Information, note particularly the disturbing
detail (about 3 mins from the end) about the effect upon unborn babies by Incinerator Dioxin Fly Ash, quite chilling.

As you may be aware, we in the area of Allerton Quarry have a looming Environmental Disaster developing in our beautiful rural country area, namely the proposed construction of a massive waste Incinerator plant less than One mile away from CONEYTHORPE, and affecting within it’s Toxic fall-out footprint the nearby villages of CLARETON, ARKENDALE, FLAXBY, ALLERTON MAULEVER, HOPPERTON, GOLDSBOROUGH, WHIXLEY, LITTLE OUSEBURN, GREAT OUSEBURN, MARTON, GRAFTON, ALDBOROUGH, BOROUGHBRIDGE, BRANTON GREEN, FERRENSBY, GREEN HAMMERTON, LOWER DUNSFORTH, MINSKIP, MYTON-ON-SWALE, STAVELEY, UPPER DUNSFORTH, & surrounding area’s.

Local affected residents seek to receive your support in our objections to any proposals to construct a massive 131 ft high Toxic Waste Incinerator Plant Factory and a Colossal 262 ft High Toxic fume spewing Chimney in the middle of our beautiful unspoilt North Yorkshire Countryside, By way of reference, York Minster, which is to be seen for miles around, is not as high at 200ft, as the proposed Incinerator Chimney of 262ft.

I should be very pleased to receive your comments, at your convenience.

Regards

A Allinson http://www.ecoivy.org/

A Allinson
April 20, 2010