What about the pollution / health risks?
Incineration (the polluting aspect of Energy from Waste plants) is currently excluded from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, a scheme that puts a price on carbon emitted and sets a cap on total industrial carbon emissions (the government will reduce the cap over time to get to net-zero). This means incinerators have no current incentive to capture the carbon and can basically just ignore the issue... Since Brexit - they no-longer measure the CO2 emissions coming out of the chimneys, so these will not be included in the UK’s carbon emissions total.
Pollutant emissions are only measured at ‘peak burn’ when they are least.
They are highest as the plant warms up and cools.
At an incinerator in Croydon, toxic waste was burning for 9 hours, causing breathing difficulties to people living in the surrounding area. The toxins include dioxins, heavy metals and particles which are well-known to cause respiratory diseases, cancer, immune system damage and reproductive and developmental problems
Incineration (the polluting aspect of Energy from Waste plants) is currently excluded from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, a scheme that puts a price on carbon emitted and sets a cap on total industrial carbon emissions (the government will reduce the cap over time to get to net-zero). This means incinerators have no current incentive to capture the carbon and can basically just ignore the issue... Since Brexit - they no-longer measure the CO2 emissions coming out of the chimneys, so these will not be included in the UK’s carbon emissions total.
Pollutant emissions are only measured at ‘peak burn’ when they are least.
They are highest as the plant warms up and cools.
At an incinerator in Croydon, toxic waste was burning for 9 hours, causing breathing difficulties to people living in the surrounding area. The toxins include dioxins, heavy metals and particles which are well-known to cause respiratory diseases, cancer, immune system damage and reproductive and developmental problems
217 more diesel lorries everyday...
LSEP have applied for permission to increase the scale of the plant by 20%. This requires MORE WASTE to BURN.
They plan to transport this to the site in 217 lorries every day. (217 journeys in, 217 out) between 7am and 11am.
Due to a low bridge at the north end of Griffiths Road lorries will need to access King Street from the A556 Morrison's roundabout, which is heavily congested especially during rush hours.
Diesel lorries and refuse trucks pose an obvious hazard to all road users, but especially to cyclists and pedestrians.
They will drive up and down King Street which is residential with increasingly narrow pavements.
Diesel fumes contain heavy metal particulates now proven to be linked towide range of health problems. Diesel exhaust contains both unburned diesel fuel and particulates or soot from burning the diesel fuel. Although almost everyone is exposed to diesel exhaust fumes on a daily basis, people in urban areas or living alongside busy roads at at greatest risk. Diesel soot may contain more than 40 different toxic compounds. You may suffer acute or short-term health effects that can include respiratory distress, asthma, increased sensitivity to other allergens such as dust or pollen, and eye or skin irritation. While scientists are keen to stress that the work does not prove that diesel causes Alzheimer’s, Dr Barbara Maher, who lead the study, said that it had become “more urgent and important” to reduce particulates in the air from combustion sources. Diesel vehicles are a key source of magnetite (iron oxide) particulates. High levels of this have been detected in the brain tissue of people with Alzheimer's. Scientists are highlighting that it is now “urgent and important” to reduce these particulates in the air.
They plan to transport this to the site in 217 lorries every day. (217 journeys in, 217 out) between 7am and 11am.
Due to a low bridge at the north end of Griffiths Road lorries will need to access King Street from the A556 Morrison's roundabout, which is heavily congested especially during rush hours.
Diesel lorries and refuse trucks pose an obvious hazard to all road users, but especially to cyclists and pedestrians.
They will drive up and down King Street which is residential with increasingly narrow pavements.
Diesel fumes contain heavy metal particulates now proven to be linked towide range of health problems. Diesel exhaust contains both unburned diesel fuel and particulates or soot from burning the diesel fuel. Although almost everyone is exposed to diesel exhaust fumes on a daily basis, people in urban areas or living alongside busy roads at at greatest risk. Diesel soot may contain more than 40 different toxic compounds. You may suffer acute or short-term health effects that can include respiratory distress, asthma, increased sensitivity to other allergens such as dust or pollen, and eye or skin irritation. While scientists are keen to stress that the work does not prove that diesel causes Alzheimer’s, Dr Barbara Maher, who lead the study, said that it had become “more urgent and important” to reduce particulates in the air from combustion sources. Diesel vehicles are a key source of magnetite (iron oxide) particulates. High levels of this have been detected in the brain tissue of people with Alzheimer's. Scientists are highlighting that it is now “urgent and important” to reduce these particulates in the air.
Current Air monitoring in Northwich:
One commentator on our FB said: "There is no real-time air monitoring in Northwich - closest to us is Frodsham. We are relying on diffusion tubes which get checked once a year! I’ve asked CWAC to install one before this plant is built but they say because they haven’t been ordered to monitor the air and it’s expensive to do it"
We have a MAP of the local diffusion tubes, but we don't know how many are in working order.
One commentator on our FB said: "There is no real-time air monitoring in Northwich - closest to us is Frodsham. We are relying on diffusion tubes which get checked once a year! I’ve asked CWAC to install one before this plant is built but they say because they haven’t been ordered to monitor the air and it’s expensive to do it"
We have a MAP of the local diffusion tubes, but we don't know how many are in working order.