Residents join forces to protest against Environment Agency Permit
More than a 100 local residents and campaigners turned out at the STAR Centre in Splott Road, Splott, Cardiff on Friday to lobby the Environment Agency and advise them not to grant environmental permission to Viridor’s proposed Cardiff incinerator.
Cardiff residents and campaigners lobbied the Environment Agency for five hours, asking questions concerning air quality management, health effects of incineration, handling of leftover ash, and consultation with the area’s parents and children
Cllr Gavin Cox, liberal democrats, told the Environment Agency that as the consultation was taking place over the summer, parents of children attending the half-dozen schools in the vicinity of the incinerator would have no chance to have direct input into the process unless it was extended.
Dr Max Wallis, Friends of the Earth, explained how incinerator company Viridor Waste Management had provided no real plan for handling ash from the incinerator. The “fly ash” and “bottom ash” produced by incineration contain concentrated toxic chemicals such as cadmium and dioxins, and the 18 tonnes a day the incinerator would produce would either be stored in Cardiff or transported miles overland, risking spills and accidents, and landfilled.
Edmund Schluessel of Cardiff Against the Incinerator campaign group, challenged the EA's decision on the grounds it has not taken into account recently re-declared air quality management areas (AQMAs) around Newport Road and Stephenson Court, as well as other health risks.
You can download the Environment Agencys draft decision online here
email: cardiffagainsttheincinerator@gmail.com
telephone: 07947 214169, twitter: @nocardiffburner
Cardiff Against the Incinerator e-petition to the Welsh Assembly is now live, sign at this link: http://tinyurl.com/cardiffburner
Read earlier posts on this campaign here
