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Peterhead campaigner exposes plans for giant incinerator
John Askey, who led the successful campaign to block the Upperton incinerator proposals, has heard of possible plans by French multi-national SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT's subsidiary, SITA UK to build a 'colossal' waste incinerator at Stoneyhill, 3 miles west of Peterhead....read more
A partial sigh of relief for Peterhead, 29 June 2010
Peterhead residents can breath a partial sigh of relief with regard to proposals for a waste incinerator at Upperton Industrial Estate. The 90 day period for Buchan Combined Heat & Power to appeal against the Council's refusal of planning permission has gone. The company could submit another...read more
Peterhead - Fears of new furnace plan, 18 June
Fresh concerns were raised last night that the north-east could yet become home to an incinerator after a major waste-management firm won a multimillion-pound contract to dispose of all of Aberdeenshire’s rubbish...read more
Incinerator focus moves to Stoneyhill, 16 Mar 2010
PLANS to bring a waste-to-energy plant to Buchan could be back on the cards at Stoneyhill after landfill operators SITA UK revealed they had submitted a tender to Aberdeenshire council for a...read more
Peterhead Newsletter 4, Sunday 14 February 2010 - Hi all - In Aberdeenshire this is what happens to each of the Items below once you have taken them to a Recycling Point or Household Waste and Recycling Centre. It doesn't show the proportion of what is produced in total to what happens here, but interesting....if we can find out what is actually landfilled of the difference between them, then therein is the business deal to be had and the contacts are there presumably waiting to accept more? Read more
Plans for incinerator voted down by council
- STV video report, broadcast Thursday 21 January 2010
Plans to build a controversial multi-million pound incinerator in Peterhead have been thrown out by
councillors. Dozens gathered outside Aberdeenshire Council offices on Thursday morning ahead of a full meeting of the local authority. However councillors voted against approving permission for Buchan CHP’s proposed waste-to-energy facility. The scheme has already seen...
Newsletter no.3, 18 January 2010 - Planning recommend rejection of the proposed incinerator in Aberdeenshire
Please support your Planning Officers, they are the professionals who spent 18 months working on this application. You are being asked to decide on one single planning application on a specific site: you are not being asked to solve the nation's waste disposal issues.
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Newsletter no.2, 11 January 2010 - Energetica Corridor – no mention of energy from waste no mention of incineration.
“All new physical development in the ‘Energetica Corridor’ should have a zero carbon footprint. This should be a hallmark of the Project – the ethos of ‘Energetica’.” Burning 105,000 tonnes of waste will produce about 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. That is 2.5million tonnes over the life of this proposed Incinerator in .......
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Newsletter no.1, 4 January 2010 - Aberdeenshire Is Number One For Quality Of Life
High life expectancy rates, high earnings and good school results - it's no wonder Aberdeenshire residents enjoy the best quality of life in Scotland. Chief Executive of Aberdeenshire Council Colin Mackenzie welcomed the news. He said: “This is an excellent verification from the Bank of Scotland that Aberdeenshire continues to provide the best quality of life.....
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Brief synopsis of the Peterhead campaign so far, by John Askey....
By chance we bought a local paper in February 2008 and, by chance, read the public notices which had a small advert saying 'Erection of energy from waste plant at Upperton Industrial Estate Peterhead'. Contact for it was Buchan CHP and Glenn Jones. We knew him from the days when he ran Stoneyhill Landfill Tip and then when he moved on from there to Savoch quarry and got permission to dump 50000 tons of asbestos in it and now here he was starting the ball rolling for an incinerator for Peterhead.
We went to view the plans at the main post office in Peterhead, where they told me they didn't know what to do with them so had sent both sets to Boddam post office ( a tiny village pre fab post office with no facilities at all to spread out such complex plans on such an important issue). I was told I could take them round to the local cafe to view! at that time, and for a bit after, I and my partner were the only people in Peterhead who knew what was coming.
Very early on there was a so called "public consultation". I have never spoken to anyone who knew it was on. My partner designed and produced and we photocopied a leaflet listing why we were against this proposal and hired a hall and delivered the leaflet through hundreds of doors across summer evenings when everybody else was watching tv or cutting their lawns or getting on with their lives oblivious. About 70 people came along and from that we developed a hard core of 6 or so (now that is up to about a dozen to 20 pro active people).
We read all we could re....Environmental Impact Statements, researched internet, Michael Ryan, Dr Connett, incineration pro and against, other groups, read European Directives on air quality, investigated what currently happens to our waste and the commercial and industrial waste in our area.
We learnt all about who our local councillors were, got their profiles, and the Full Council, wrote to them all asking their views and expressing our concerns about this specific application, got to know how the political game is played, still learning this...wrote many many letters to newspapers, tv interviews, radio etc wrote many reports to bodies like SEPA and Planning, networked as much as possible. Looked into alternatives. Appeared at Council to make representation on two occasions and built up connections with sympathetic Councillors who would help but within the boundaries of their code of conduct.
Eventually after 2 years of real ups and downs (the Buchan Area Committee having voted narrowly for it in December 09 - see STV report) the Full Aberdeenshire Council voted overwhelmingly against it 50 to 12 with 1 abstention on 21st January (see STV report). Planning had also recommended refusal as it did not meet the conditions of the Proximity principle and there were no sorting facilities at the site. At this time we await an appeal. The group are more active now in a positive way than ever, we are looking at the political situation in Peterhead very intensely, the waste arising in Peterhead and in Aberdeenshire and the opportunities for us to become involved in a really meaningful way in recycling.
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