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WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID
"If Beech remnant A is protected, the Landfill will be considerably more expensive and we'd end up building another one nearby on the property, which is bloody stupid and a real nonsense" - Christchurch city Councillor Denis O'Rourke Canterbury Waste Sub-committee chairman response to commissioners decision on Kate valley
"People should be rejoicing in the fact that Christchurch will have one of the world's most
environmentally secure landfills." - Christchurch city Councillor Denis O'Rourke Canterbury Waste Sub-committee
chairman
"This decision means we are now one step closer to establishing a modern, environmentally sound landfill, which will be operated in accordance with the highest international standards" - Hurunui District Mayor Tony Arps comment to the commissioners decision
"Kate valley will be state of the art" - Christchurch Mayor Garry Moore
P.B.B.U.A. view is that there is no state of the art landfill, no environmentally secure landfill at all in existence! click here for the evidence
NB Square brackets [ ] are inserts to bring the comment up to date.
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“European law generally favours incineration over landfilling, with some countries actively phasing out landfills.” [and these countries are our major trading partners]
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“The public perception of incineration worldwide [4 years ago was] very poor, based on incorrect assumptions about potential health risks to people living near by”
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“Incineration is more sustainable than landfilling in the long term”
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Waste to energy incineration is seen as a sound alternative to waste minimization, as energy production is effectively recycling, and possibly a more efficient form than “normal” recycling based on overall energy balance.
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The EC is [in 1997] developing legislation banning organic waste from landfills for the following key reasons:
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The French Government has adopted a policy of landfill last, and has plans to build a further 150 incinerators by 2002
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While there is an adverse public perception of waste incineration on environmental grounds, the actual environmental effects on discharge are often less than that which is tacitly accepted by the public from industrial processes. For example the EC has set a 0.1 nanogram/liter limit on Dioxins for incinerators, ie a very detailed and stringent regulation, and feels that this is somewhat hypocritical since this is a lower standard than for industry.
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…there is still a strong preference for incineration instead of landfill in the UK….
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The French government has adopted a policy of landfill last, and has plans to build a further 150 incinerators in the country by 2002. [To replace landfilling].
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European law generally favours incineration over landfilling, with some countries actively phasing out landfills.
Page 37 (Remark - Promotion of the landfill concept? )
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…. The four public partners in the venture have found themselves with a “a cash cow” bringing in large revenues above the costs of the landfill from the royalties charged on the tipping fee……
Paragraph 2
…..This fee can then be applied too projects of benefit to those affected by the landfill activities, or more usually, applied to pet projects of the Council elected members.
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The public perception of incineration worldwide is very poor, based on incorrect assumptions about the potential health risks of people living nearby.
Ref : Royal Commission on
Environmental Polution, 17th Report Incineration of Waste May 1993.
This report was also made available to the Joint Waste Standing Committee studying the issue of how to dispose of Canterbury’s waste…
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In ‘Conclusions and Recommendations’
10.10 Incineration, followed by landfilling of the solid residues, will in our view prove to be the best practicable environmental option for municipal waste.
[note today with vitirification and plasma arch technologies there is no longer any need for a ‘landfill’, ALL residues are rendered inert and go to what is called a ‘clean fill’.]
“Leachate will be trucked back to ChCh for treatment at municipal plants” [Bromley? and then outflow to the estuary? ]