‘Extravagant waste plant will mean spending cuts elsewhere’
Friday 19th June 2009, 2:29PM BST.
GUERNSEY could be forced to cut back spending in other areas if the States locks itself into a deal for a proposed material recovery facility and energy-from-waste plant, according to the Guernsey Climate Action Network.
Chairman Nick Day (pictured) is backing a campaign to raise awareness about claimed flaws in the multi-million pound scheme.
‘We would be tying ourselves to something that will be extravagantly expensive and that will be outdated quite quickly,’ he said.
‘We would be locked in and forced to pay for it for 25 years.’
He agreed the island needed some form of incinerator to deal with its current waste problem, but felt the proposed solution was not the way to go.
‘The remit was too narrow,’ he said.
‘We need to widen it and ask for more proposals.’
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‘We would be tying ourselves to something that will be extravagantly expensive and that will be [*]outdated[*] quite quickly,’ he said
I agree that this option will become outdated and tying to 25 years and building a monster of a facility is not the way to go on an island. Seeing as Jersey have over sized theirs then Guernsey could consider short term transport of waste there whilst working on the long term strategy.
Until people realise that their lifes can not be so greedy on resources, waste globally is just going to keep growing in the developed economies.
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