'Blood money' accusation over St Dennis incinerator cash

“The inescapable reasons STIG are right and Sita backed by Cornwall Council are wrong:

European countries are turning to anaerobic digestion making incinerators obsolete whilst we have signed a moronic 30 year contract where Sita cannot fail to 'clean up' if you'll pardon the pun.
Cornwall boasts 'green credentials' which are as shallow as their covert assistance to aid big business and to the detriment of the ratepayer. Burning is not sustainable, we should recycle more. Incineration is a huge carbon footprint which the residents will be forced to offset.

A single massive burn will mean the importation of waste, more lorries, more pollution.
Incineration is not safe, especially for the young, unborn and medically compromised.
It still isn't clear what's happening to the toxic bottom ash, you may escape the dioxin fallout only to be lumbered with the waste.
Incinerators only operate to optimum 'safety' when operated properly. Do you trust them?

Over the decades claims are made for incinerators safety only to find out via Greenpeace or another how toxic they were, toxic ash has ended up in playing fields etc. They all go away and 'learn lessons' and repeat the same 'mistakes'.

The councillors weighed up these facts and voted 20 to 1 against.

So the lesson to this charade is that money buys democracy, big business trumps the residents of Cornwall.

The irony is the a bunch of amateurs in St Dennis come up with a more creditable solution.”

“For all that cost they could have built another waste management facility of some description and ensured Kernow's waste is effectively recycled, recycled being the operative word, not burnt.

I hope you will agree it's laziness on the behalf of the council, as its easier to burn everything rather than educate the public, and initiate further source seperation in households. The problem is that once waste streams are separated (as many districts now do) the now separated waste is not allowed to be burned as it does not constitute recycling. SO, for all your efforts in you kitchens around the county, you may as well chuck it all in one big bag.

Wastes to be disposed of from this facility (fly ash and bottom ash) will be a struggle to get rid of in Cornwall, but the Cornwall Council has managed to flex European law on this one so far, I'm sure they will pull something out of the bag, lets see who's home that waste ends up next to!”

“@Roger_Angove - absolutely right mate. Thinking people realise that we will soon be in the same situation as Greece: it's either UKIP or Golden Dawn. There is absolutely no doubt the two main parties plus the Limpdims have brought this once great nation to its knees. Everything once owned by the British people is now up for grabs or sold already - started by Thatcher, accelerated under Nulabour and now heading for total wipe-out under the ConDems.

If only we'd realised just how right Sir Harold Macmillan was when he warned the nation about the direction it was being taken.

The whole country is now wallowing in sleaze and corruption. It can't go on like this for much longer....”

“@ dee_2

Spot on.

One only has to look at how things are going in Greece to see that (sooner rather than later) the choice for the UK will be UKIP today or Golden Dawn tomorrow.”

“@Twain1 says: "It's time to wake up." They are right but we have a whole nation sleep walking to disaster and they don't appear to want to wake up. What will 48,000 (and more) new homes do in terms of waste? The answer is obviously generate a lot more of it. Our population is unsustainable on this already overcrowded island. But don't worry, we'll just go on covering our farmland with concrete until we become the best housed starving nation on earth.

And let's be clear how we got here. Labour followed by the ConDems have milked the hardworking majority of this country - between them they've flogged off virtually everything that can be sold and now there's only the land left. And that, thanks in no small part to Cornwall Council, is the next to go.”

“Well done stig, you have been an inspiration. And for those that call them 'nimbys' are either stupid or hypocrites. No one in their right mind would want 30 years of retro tech, cancer spewing, non sustainable, massive carbon footprint incinerator.
As voted out by CC 20 to 1.
But democracy is trampled and (foreign) big business wins again.
It's time to wake up.
They did in St Dennis.
When will you?”

“SITA/Cornwall Council want to extend the life Connon Bridge Landfill Site and we are being offered absolutely NOTHING for another 22 years of agravation! Call it blood money if you like St Dennis, but you are obviously considered a better class of Cornish citizen than we are. Even when SITA/Cornwall Council wanted to extend the life of United Mines Landfill Site by just 1 year/18 months, the Parish Councils were given both a veto and offered a sweetener of £1 million to accept the deal. They rejected it and the site was closed on time.
We in the east of the county are being given no choice, no 'bribe' nor any blood money, so that confirms what SITA/Cornwall Council thinks of us!!!!”

“still moaning and in my veiw greedy. if they think it is blood money as stated they can easily give it away to the numerous charities and other facilities so in need of financial backing in these austere times.”