Rubbish from six London boroughs - Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames – could soon be transported halfway across the country to be burnt in Bristol.
Severnside Energy Recovery Centre is a posh name for a giant incinerator which would be built five miles north east of Avonmouth.
Despite the plans for the new “energy-from-waste facility” being approved by communities secretary Eric Pickles in 2011, it has only recently emerged that a large percentage of the 400,000 tonnes-a-year of commercial and industrial waste burnt on the site will not be from Bristol but from up to 1.4 million London residents.
“We are not London’s dustbin,” tweeted Bristol mayor George Ferguson.
and is any energy created from burning this stuff? doesn’t seem very clean does it?
Yes. That’s the whole point. It’s an “energy-from-waste facility”.
Why do politicians like Ferguson seem hell bent in showing little more than their total ignorance of the facts.
Bristol, where Ferguson happens to be Mayor, has been sending millions of tons of it’s own rubbish to the old London Brick quarries for more than 25 years.
Maybe he should take a walk to the Days Road depot and watch it being loaded onto trains to make the journey.