De Lisle vows to amend plan for waste plant
Saturday 23rd May 2009, 2:00PM BST.
ISLANDERS have been asked to plans for an £85m. waste plant.
Former Environment minister David De Lisle has been a strong campaigner against incineration and previously has advocated a ‘zero waste’ policy.
He will be looking to amend Public Service’s as yet unpublished States report when it is debated in July.
Deputy De Lisle said at the moment the full costs were not clear. One figure missing so far is how much will be charged per tonne to take rubbish there.
‘I think it’s too large to start with and it’s far too expensive a project,’ he said.
‘It was £80m. last time and that was thrown out by the States. Basically PSD has ignored that vote and had the audacity to bring that back again. The people of Guernsey have been ignored as I see it.’
The States put the brakes on plans to build a 70,000 tonnes energy-from-waste plant in 2004. The latest plans would deal with up to 57,000 tonnes initially.
‘PSD is taking this to the States without public consultation as I understand it,’ said Deputy De Lisle.
He added that waste consultants Enviros had said there would be consultation with people about the environmental impacts and emissions.
The plant would recycle around the same tonnage as a kerbside recycling scheme would and that would cost £1m. a year, said Deputy De Lisle.
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thankfully someone seeing long term sustainable sense that is not about convenience or greed (profit) but straight forward puting the environment first, thank you.
We are now paying for the industrial growth that has occured with out thought for the environment, yes it may mean daily lives slightly more complex as we manage the changes needed, but we must embrace this.
To have life for all generations is not about being lazy now and looking for the easy way out. Save the project money and put it aside for the running costs of the future.
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Totaly agree with you Guern Abroad
On another note i always get the feeling when listening to Flouquet speak he`s not got much appetite towards those who dissagre with him and speaks in a very condescending way.
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Anyone who heard Professor Nick Day on BBC Guernsey this morning will know that this crazy waste plant policy needs to be amended.
As the prof said, crazy for both environmental and economic reasons. What sense is there in buying, at huge expense, an incinerator that is far, far too big for our present and future needs?
The MINIMUM capacity for the Suez plant is fat MORE than we are putting into landfill at Mont Cuet right now, and that’s without taking our steadily improving recycling rates into account.
In other words, we are going to have to find more waste than we are putting into landfill at present just to make this thing work efficiently.
As the professor stated, we should be investing in the region of £15 million into a ‘micro-incinerator’ that could be in place in the year 2011 if we ordered it now.
At £80 million The Suez model is a huge, exorbitant sledgehammer to crack a nut, and the States would be nuts to go for it!
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If the micro incinerator will do the job then it has to be considered.
The £80 to £130 million scheme being proposed will clearly be benificial to those financing it and who will also charge for using it.
Value for money for the taxpayer, is to be preferred over handsome long term profit for a developer.
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