Good evening everyone,
Please find forwarded a message and invitation from Neil Clapperton, to an
upcoming focusing on issues surrounding the planned Incinerator / Energy from
Waste Facility, which may be of interest.
It is possible that you may already have received a copy of the invitation,
however thought best to be thorough in ensuring that all who may be interested
have the chance to attend.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
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From: Neil Clapperton <belmondo.clapperton@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 13 February 2018 07:07
Subject: Aberdeen Incinerator Meeting 24th Feb, 2pm Quaker House, 98 Crown
Street
Dear Community Council Secretary or Chairperson,
I wonder if you could help me? I am looking for some help in identifying
people from all the parts of Aberdeen who might be interested in working
together to persuade Aberdeen City Council not to approve and build its planned
waste incinerator. It won't just affect Torry or Cove. Can you share this with
your local members and contacts?
Whilst understanding that the Council has its challenges with waste, and why it
made its decision, the world has moved on and new facts have emerged that make
this proposal a big mistake, and one that will affect Aberdonians for a
generation or more. Here's a few to consider.
The incinerator will worsen air quality across the City, fumes being no
respecter of council or ward boundaries. In addition to obvious respiratory
health effects, scientific studies have linked incinerators with cancers and
miscarriages, and poor air quality (nano particles that you get from
incinerators) recently with alzheimer's.
It will make climate change worse. Waste incinerators are as dirty or dirtier
than coal power stations and less efficient as generators of heat and power
than all fossil fuels.
We need to keep the carbon locked up and recycled. New uses are being
developed for recycled plastics but where incinerators are installed, they need
fed and recycling goes down as councils divert recyclable waste to the furnace.
It is a financial drain on the council. Single use plastics are being phased
out, but the contract ties the Council into supplying a set quantity of waste,
and if it fails to do so, there are substantial fines.
It will blight the new harbour, because as recycling increases and single use
plastics reduce, the Council will be forced to import waste from the rest of
the UK and other countries, via the new harbour. Will cruise ships wish to
berth alongside bulk carriers full of refuse?
It sounds like the promises of cheap heat for local residents are being
abandoned.
If members of the public or Community Councillors wish to do something, please
suggest they come along to the Quaker Meeting House 2pm 24th February to listen
to John Young, an activist from South Lanarkshire, whose group has stopped two
incinerator projects and is fighting two more in the central belt.
Kind regards
Neil
