Waste decision ‘later this year’

Friday 4th April 2008, 1:30PM BST.

Plans to build a waste plant, probably here at Longue Hougue, are over a year behind schedule.

PROGRESS towards building a waste plant is around a year and four months behind predictions.

When Environment was in charge of the process, it said that the tender documents should be issued in April last year. But there have been significant delays, including the handing over of responsibility to Public Services and the States indecision on how much waste it should deal with.

Yesterday, a project board in charge of procuring a waste plant met for the first time. It is hoped that that a report recommending a shortlist of companies will go to the States in July. If accepted, invitations to tender would be sent out in August.