Yes,
I'm talking about the decision announced on Tuesday 17th March to permit the
lifting of the 30 mile limits on from where waste can be brought into two waste
processing plants in Corby.
This,
sadly, means that the two waste plants will probably now go ahead - a
gasification plant on Gretton Brook Road, adjacent to the Brookfield site, and
a pyrolysis plant and an anaerobic digester at Shelton Road.
For
over two years we've been campaigning against these plans in their various
forms, and have had some success where Corby Borough Council was concerned. Unfortunately, Northamptonshire County
Council is the waste authority, and they've decreed that these limits should be
lifted.
Even
though we, the locals, didn't want that.
Nearly two thousand signatures were received on paper and online
petitions and 120 individual objections were lodged against the Gretton Brook
Road plans.
Corby
Borough Council didn't want these limits lifted either. But the Development Control Committee at NCC
have decided that our concerns should be ignored.
Concerns
which ranged from emissions from the sites and the HGVs transporting waste from
such huge distances, to concerns about the people living next to the Gretton
Brook Road plant, and concerns about the wildlife and trees in the neighbouring
Brookfield woodland.
Waste
plants are notorious for catching fire - the BBC reported 360 fires at such
facilities last year. The impact on the people
and animals living near this plant would be devastating should similar fires
occur here.
These
rulings effectively open the floodgates to us receiving waste from as far away
as Kent, and from 15 counties that surround Northamptonshire and even further
afield.
As
usual, it's all about money. These will
be run by private companies, making huge profits at our expense, whilst
offering us a handful of jobs sorting rubbish in return.
Corby
had done a great job of regenerating itself; such a shame NCC - situated in the
south of the county - couldn't see that.
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