Three firms interested in paying for waste plant
Monday 11th April 2011, 2:29PM BST.
AT LEAST three companies have put forward privately financed waste proposals as work continues to find an island solution.
Public Services member Jan Kuttelwascher (pictured) has come out in favour of one that would not require much, or perhaps any, States cash.
‘My view is that I would like to see the commercialisation of waste as the preferred option if it meets the regulations.
‘I do not see why the States should be paying for it.’
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No wonder they’re queueing up. Based on our record so far re buying in waste systems the chosen provider will sign a contract with the States, the States will tear up said contract at the final minute and the outside company involved will pick up a nice little compensation package of 6 or 8 million without doing a thing. Nice work if you can get it!
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Martino – in that case perhaps we should set up a waste management company? Could be a nice little earner don’t you think?
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The last iteration meant that we provided the land, the money for the building and provided the waste. Always appeared to me anyway as a great deal for the French company and a bad deal for Guernsey.
There’s obviously brass in muck so if someone stomps up the cash for the facilities and pays a reasonable rent for the land and we provide our them our waste; surely that’s a better deal for the taxpayer isn’t it?
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I am wondering what Stan Brouard has been doing all this time?
Why hasn’t he used this as the breathing space he wanted to prove the system he had planned for the island?
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Paul
I`m not sure but i think they refused to let him bring it over?.
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Ah yes Paul but by the time the politicians reach a firm decision on this we’ll all be up to our necks in waste, let alone able to manage it!
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Paul
I should think Stan Brouard has been very busy overseeing the building of his new aircraft hangar about 500 yards up the road from the little old lady with the incongruous fence
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Jersey has given clear indications they’ll be happy to work out some type of arrangement with us. They are on the look out for more fuel to feed their hungry monster. They can’t produce enough waste to run their plant at maximum efficiency.
I see that as the perfect solution until advancements in technology shows the way to a better solution.
There is a spare fuel tanker that could be converted especially for this purpose.
Information on this has been very thin on the ground lately.
So has a reply to GB’s revelations.
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