{"id":21,"date":"2013-09-12T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websitesahoy.co.uk\/particulart\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:30:08","slug":"exeter-incinerator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/issues\/exeter-incinerator\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter Incinerator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Smokestack\"<\/p>\n

Diana writes…<\/p>\n

Devon County Council has contracted with Viridor to construct and operate, for 25 years, an ‘Energy from Waste’ plant. To you and me, that’s an incinerator.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, the plant will<\/strong> create energy, but the proposals [formerly at http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/appref?id=3058] for local business to use this energy are far from thought through. Less\u00a0harmful alternatives <\/a>to incineration as a means of dealing with Exeter’s waste were rejected by the County Council. The Council have ploughed ahead with its construction and the plant will start operating in April 2014 – with many unanswered questions about its impact.<\/p>\n

‘Energy from Waste’ is a positive spin on the operation of an incinerator, but there are less positive impacts that will spill out onto our communities and environment. You can read some of\u00a0my\u00a0concerns expressed in\u00a0my letter of objection<\/a> submitted in 2007 to\u00a0Devon County\u00a0Council at the planning application stage, and my letter to Cllr Newcombe<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n

So fellow Exeter citizens, and taxpayers,\u00a0we’ll have to learn to live with this new addition to our landscape and, as we do, we\u00a0need to ensure that the incinerator and its operation is:<\/p>\n