Go-ahead for Saltend incinerator to be built
The Environment Agency has today given the go-ahead for an incinerator to be built at Saltend.
The agency has issued an environmental permit to Waste Recycling Group (WRG) for its non-hazardous waste incinerator at Queen Elizabeth Dock, near Hedon.
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Environment Agency has given the go-ahead for Saltend incinerator to be built
The plant, also known as an energy from waste facility, burns waste at high temperatures using the energy to generate electricity.
The new permit will set strict conditions governing the operation of the incinerator, ensuring that public health and the environment are properly protected.
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Simon Firth, the agency's environment manager, said: "We have considered this application very carefully, and we are satisfied that the incinerator will not cause any significant pollution providing it is operated in accordance with our permit.
"When the facility is up and running we will monitor its environment performance, including emissions to air, to ensure that the permit conditions are not breached."
The public were given one last chance to have their say on the plant's operation during a consultation in April.
With planning permission to build the plant already secured, the operating licence was the final stage of the decision-making process.
See Thursday's Mail for full reaction and analysis to the Saltend incinerator decision.
Comments
by Charles, cott
Thursday, June 25 2009, 1:08AM
“This is great news.
Now we can burn all the LIb Dems and Labour trash and the wind will carry them all away .....
Then we'll really be free”
by Alf hart, Springbank
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 8:48PM
“Go ahead for the Saltend incinerator eh? There's a shock. Of course it was going to be built, the local politicians have to maintain the facade of democracy by protesting and objecting only to be "over-ruled" by some faceless planners or whatever, it's all just a game.
Actually I support an incinerator, one one condition - that the combustion conditions are recorded 24 hours a day by untamperable independent devices, the results are made public, and spot unannounced audits are made by the Environment Agency (especially during the night shift too when all the dodgy practices take place). The reason I say this is that Incineration is a good way forward, dioxins and other nasties are not emitted if the temperature is high enough and plenty of oxygen present. As this is costly we must guard against some bureaucratic cheapskate accountant putting covert pressure on operating management by telling them to "cut costs" and turn it down. These weasels are the real problem, not the technical and operational staff!
Am I streetwise or what? That'll cure 'em!!”
by nick, west hull
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 8:21PM
“its time to stop voicing your concerns regarding congestion on the roads , yes it will mean there will be a few more lorries on the road , but the fact is , This country is running out of holes for the non recycle waste to be buried , at least now it can be incinerated to produce sustainable energy”
by sarah, hull
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 7:47PM
“good”
by andy, west hull
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 7:43PM
“Great news. bring it on. common sense prevails at last”
by Carcinogen, In the incinerator exhaust gas
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 6:34PM
“It'll be great - until 20 years down the line 'hot spots' of cancer sufferes are discovered in the 'fall out ' area of this site.”
by barry, hull
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 6:15PM
“I'm surprised that the Lib councillors who campaigned against the incinerater aren't out in force doing so again.Oh!! wait a minute they weren't in power then and didn't have to make difficult decisions.Uriah Heap would have made the grade as a Lib Dem (ever so humble).We now have the situation were these bunch of phonies are saying they were never against incineration in the first place.On the other hand the money hasn't arrived yet and may never do so.The only consolation I have living in East Hull is that the prevailling wind takes the smoke and pollution over the East Riding.I feel sorry for them. I can remember when asbestos was deemed safe and Capper Pass was supposed to be pollution free.”
by defeated nimby, hedon
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 4:30PM
“How do we know there'll be British jobs ?The roads will be congested but the location is near to the docks and I'll bet we get everyone else's waste to burn via big bulk carriers. Any way off to put the house on the market that's if I can sell it !”
by nelly, Hull
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 3:43PM
“Great Stuff ! BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKER ! Hip Hip HORRAY.”
by TY, Hull
Wednesday, June 24 2009, 3:40PM
“It's not so much the nimbys, but common sense that has gone. A site such as Capper Pass would be ideal purely on a traffic basis. Heavy traffic on already congested roads - all the way in, then all the way out again. That's my main concern.”