Burner carbon figure ‘more than double’
Tuesday 23rd February 2010, 2:29PM GMT.
TOTAL emissions from the proposed incinerator will be about two-and-a-half times more than figures given during last month’s States debate, climate change campaigner Nick Day (pictured) claims.
Chief Minister Lyndon Trott answered questions about the level of carbon emissions expected from the planned Suez facility.
Figures supplied to him by Public Services said the waste plant would produce about 16,000 tonnes of CO2 at maximum capacity.
He added that there were carbon benefits to take into consideration and that if they were added up, there would be a year one ‘net carbon saving of 6,424 tonnes of CO2’.
Public Services confirmed it used guidelines set by the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate the figures, but Professor Day disputed the results.
- ‘Viable alternative’ Green Homes Guernsey has intensified its campaign ahead of the waste debate.
The company is trying to gain support for a pyrolysis, or gasification, plant as a better solution than the £93.5m. Suez incinerator.
GHG said its plant would use proven technology and process 30-50,000 tonnes of waste a year with no States capital expenditure.
It would be able to recycle a variety of waste products, including wood, industrial, cesspit and veterinary, adding that its facility would produce ‘continuous renewable energy,’ it said.
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Surely the emissions of the waste plant will be fixed by Guernsey’s Environmental Regulator under the IPPC Licence that the plant must obtain before it can operate.
How much CO2 and other nasties are currently being emitted by the island’s oil-fired power station – without a cheap of complaint from the local eco-nutters??
Who among the local eco lobby bothered themselves to complain about Island Waste’s uncontrolled burning of wood waste – blasting out CO2 for years and years until its polluting ways were finally stopped by neighbouring residents??
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Just as well island waste have stopped burning, as a plank, you could well have ended up in there.
Why bother familiarising yourself with the facts?
Why bother with any research?
Just anonymosly shoot from the hip.
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CO2 is often used as a collective term for the content of emissions.
Burning wood may have a higher content of ‘actual’ CO2 then incineration, however I would far rather breath the wood burn pile then the actual content of the emissions from a mass burner.
CO2 is used as a collective term even in environmental discussions to cover all noxious gasses.
That Suez proposal is going to produce emissions of nastey gasses of which just one element is CO2.
Wood burning is only going to have other nastey gasses if the wood for example was painted or treated with a preservative.
Whereas Suez would be proposed to burn anything that could not be bothered to be recycled from plastic foam to a big pile of unwanted toys.
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http://www.slideshare.net/chastya/plant-pollution-slide-6-excel-97
This presentation indicates the coverage of pollution from the combined effects of PEH, Electicity oil fired generator and bernies new better than tomorrow incinerator……No place to hide.
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Its not the CO2 you have to worry about its the carcinogens and mutagens; if you are literate please read this summary.
http://www.fraw.org.uk/library/toxics/bsem_incinerators.pdf
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Andy.
It will also be the CO2 emissions we have to worry about when we have to comply with CO2 targets which will be very soon
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