Last ditch bid made to throw out Suez burner
Monday 15th February 2010, 2:30PM GMT.
STATES members will be asked at the end of the month to throw out the Suez incinerator plan.
The surprise move emerged yesterday after Deputy Mary Lowe revealed an amendment to the already tabled Deputy Jan Kuttelwascher requete.
It asks that the States withdraw support from Suez as the preferred bidder and commission a report on a revised solid waste disposal strategy.
‘This has been a controversial issue, and an awful lot of people do not want to see the incinerator go ahead,’ said Deputy Lowe (pictured).
Deputy Kuttelwascher’s requete asks Public Services to go back to the States for final approval before signing the contract with Suez. ‘I don’t think Jan’s requete went far enough, so I am putting this forward as another option,’ said Deputy Lowe. ‘It means everything will be on the table for debate.’
She is not supporting any of the other waste options being discussed, but felt Suez should be stopped regardless of the letter of intent for the project to go ahead.
‘There is the potential for that letter to be challenged,’ said Deputy Lowe. ‘We need to put it in perspective – £3.2m. [to break off the deal with Suez] is a lot of money, but £93m. is a lot more.’
Deputy Lowe has never supported the Suez proposal and said islanders were also against it.
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One more step after that.
Take the whole project away from any Politician or Civil Servant who has spent so much time working on this that they have become blinkered to any alternatives to inineration
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Can only hope that light is seen and a reversal of this incineration is agreed to.
Lastly must not forget that Jersey’s incinerator is not running efficient enough and therefore punting out even more harmful volumes of toxins. Guernsey can not afford to go down the same route and then end up with two incinerators within miles of each other that are heavy polluters let alone the fact they are burning resources that the earth will run out of in the future!
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Bring on island wide voting, so I can vote for Mary.
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An excellent letter today from Jeremy Mercer that further destroys the PSD and Floquet cases.
In particular his research into the Suez’s own projection of the estimated costs (£194 million) put into the shade the £93 million of the PSD.
Why are so many deputies so committed to wasting so much public money?
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The trouble is that the people were given the choice of recycling or incineration. If everybody recycled, then there would be only approx 1% of rubbish to incinerate. Surely it would be cheaper to send that rubbish to Jersey than spend 93 million on such a small amount. On the other hand, if we went for incineration, then we would have to scrap recycling, because of costs. But!! we would not generate enough burnable rubbish to generate full time electricity. Tis one or tother.
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Perhaps Aimee could organise a rent a crowd on the court steps for Wednesday 24/2 so that our glorious leaders will have to wade through a wall of orange ribbons
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Well done Mary Lowe.
Time to stop pussyfooting around and kick out this ridiculous proposal once and for all.
Step up the recycling efforts and ship the rest to Jersey for now, it’s so simple it’s unbelievable.
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Ah, but Phil, the States of Guernsey, and especially PSD, doesn’t tend to do “simple”, or for that matter “common sense” or “value formoney”. It does do “unbelievable” very well though !
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As Deputy Ogier said on the radio this morning, this project needs to be taken away from the Department dealing with it because they are the people who have consistently blocked any attempts to avoid a large end of line waste plant.
Although the mandate for finding a waste solution used to be with environment, when it moved to PSD, spookily, so did the people working on it…… and I don’t just mean the politicians out front.
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http://www.my-gsy.com/archive/recycling.jpg
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How can what is essentially a glorified bonfire cost £93m anyway?!?
Instead of spending all this cash perhaps our government could supply every household in Guernsey with one of those metal dustbins with the holes and chimney in the lid, they could even throw in a free box of matches!
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buy a boat and send it all to Jersey and france
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