Whetstone site being considered for new waste incinerator

Local Friends of the Earth groups have been campaigning against the County Council's proposals to build a big new incinerator in Leicestershire, to burn over half of the County's waste. Using the Freedom of Information regulations, Friends of the Earth have now managed to obtain the initial PFI funding expression of interest documents from the Council. These documents suggest that the waste transfer site at Whetstone is under consideration for the waste burner. The main document describes a waste transfer station and site of a former incineration facility as being available and owned by the county council. Later the need for access improvements is highlighted and with an appendix studies total transfers distances for the project, assuming the treatment plant is located at Whetstone. It is likely that other nearby site could be studied as alternative locations.

It is also clear that the waste consultants, who were behind the failed Norwich incinerator, have rigged the evaluation process in Leicestershire. read original review of evaluation

This website is aimed to network those who want something that is really green and sustainable and are against a mass-burn incinerator in the county.

Please email join@lain.org.uk to add your details to the network

There is also a yahoo group set up to fight the incinerator please see join yahoo group

Please also look at the nearby campaign in Nottingham which already has an incinerator. They have lots of useful links and video NAIL - Nottingham against Incineration and landfill

Plans for a state-of-the-art waste treatment plant on the edge of Norwich have been submitted. A planning application for the mechanical biological treatment (MBT) facility in Costessey has been lodged with South Norfolk Council.

The scheme won backing from the county council as an alternative to a controversial incinerator to treat 150,000 tonnes of Norfolk's residual waste instead of burying it to landfill sites.

Nuneaton & District Friends of the Earth was formed in 1991. It exists to serve the communities of Nuneaton & Bedworth, North Warwickshire and Hinckley & Bosworth boroughs.

We meet on the second Monday of every month at 7.30 pm at the United Reformed Church, Chapel St, Nuneaton town centre(opposite the Council House).

We meet on the third Tuesday of every month, at 7.30pm. Meetings are usually at Wellington Street Adult Education Centre; however, the August meeting is in the bar of Out of the Vaults, corner of New Walk and King Street, since the Adult Education Centre is not available on Tuesdays, in July and August.

For more information contact Steve Massey - stevene_2002uk@yahoo.co.uk Tel; (0116) 255 2852

Telephone contact David Bentley Number 01509 213 144

The group meets on 2nd Thursday of each month, 7.30 - 9 pm in St Hugh's Church Hall, Granville St, Market Harborough.

We are a small group within the county of Rutland, aiming to make a positive difference to our environment. While we are backed by the national / international Friends of the Earth organisation, our focus is to look at local issues, thereby bringing together people in the area who share our concerns about how the way we live affects our environment.

Keith Kondakor is a member of Nuneaton and District Friends of the Earth. He discovered the strategy to build a giant incinerator in Warwickshire for municipal waste by accident when he tried to get Nuneaton and Bedworth Council to recycle plastic. Those plans are now effectively dead after almost 2 years of campaigning.

He now helps some of the other groups with their campaigns and has been active in objecting to mass-burn waste incinerators in Hull, Nottinghamshire and now Leicestershire.