Three votes from tipping point
Wednesday 24th February 2010, 2:30PM GMT.
The fate of Guernsey’s £94m. incinerator could rest with as few as three deputies, it has emerged.
As the States meet today, objectors have calculated that they need to change the mind of just a handful of members to delay the controversial plant.
The debate about the cost of the plant has also become heated although figures released by the company indicate that if the project does go ahead, it will cost the island at least £21,260 a day for the next 25 years.
If a requete by Deputy Jan Kuttelwascher is rejected, it will give the go-ahead for the project, which is dogged with mounting criticism.
But if it is successful, other options will be given until around June to prove themselves before the States votes on whether to sign a contract with Suez.
When the Assembly debated the Suez proposal last July, 17 of the 47 members wanted more time to examine other options. Two who voted at that time in favour of Suez – Jane Stephens and Mike Hadley – have signed the Kuttelwascher requete.
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That’s £885.83 every hour for 25 years
That’s £14.76 every minute for 25 years
That’s crazy !
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did anyone see the news yesterday regarding the company in Swansea, Wales? A company there are able to use recycled plastic to build…. HOUSES!
a wall of the house was made from recycled TV’s!
They can build a house for 40K! Now that’s innovation. That’s forward thinking. That’s what CAN be done. C’mon Deputies… Take the blinkers off and look to the future. For all our sakes.
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Very nice;
wall to wall TV.,
HC Anderson had better stories
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George
Yes I saw that item on the lunchtime news and was looking forward to seeing it again on the 6pm news but there were probably too many bad news stories to report on.
It was a BBC item so perhaps our local unit could dig it out and repeat it in view of our present recycling problems
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We do not have the luxury to keep raping the earth to make new ‘stuff’. We already need two further planets and that is I think 58 Guernsey islands to sustain current living reported earier this week.
So we CAN NOT afford to burn what we have finished with using today.
The planet can not keep giving materials to make new ‘stuff’, it will RUN OUT.
Please please ensure that this incenerator does not get the green light. We must recycle.
BBC showed an interesting take on all this on Tuesday night at 8pm ‘How The Earth Made Us’, if it is on Iplayer it is worth watching,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qclqx
Especialy for those who do not believe there is a problem with throwing away and/or burning stuff. Some land fills are actually being combed over to retrieve waste to re use it! Which really means that Jersey should only be used for a short time whilst ramping up recycling.
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I would like to suggest that some of the
States members take a look at countries that DO re-cycle; and the goods that come there from;
Alas if we do that then more little TRIPS will come about, and any money saved is quickly used up for “GADDING ABOUT”.
But re-cycling is good, and worth every item that is made from re-cycled stuff.
Just burn is hiding the fact how inefficient these present rulers are, they are the ones that should be incinerated. Because fire cleanses.
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If counties like nottingham can have a different coloured bin for different recycling collected on different nights/days of the week, why cant we. stick some unemployed on a bin lorry during the day pay them just above the jobless allowance and have them get the recycling, surely to feel worth and have a good work record will make for better employment chances later. just a thought
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busarider;
In the first place what you suggest is a very worthy idea—Only- yes only you forget that to get that going as a concern the States (ha ha ) I nearly said circus) have to meet,
then they
Have to think it over:
Then make a plan
then decide to whom and what department would bge responsible.
then comes the Pour Etc;
Then my goodness how time flies, 1915 already; really we must find a solution–
Well now this is the new and first meeting of the States as the others are retired , or deceased, or still working out a system.
Of course we must find a way to carry out the system which has been suggested.
“What’s that, what system?
My goodness those men who were ear marked have all retired years ago.
So lets see. now the Idea was to make the Island more self sufficient, I therefore think we should Build a lot of Glass house, grow wine and then distill the grapes and make our own cognac, and call it Now let’s see-
“DELIBERATION ETATS’
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