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[Martin]

Lancashire waste plants fail to meet recycling demands

WASTE plants dealing with Lancashire’s rubbish are being penalised after failing to meet recycling targets – just four years into a £2billion deal.

Too much household waste is being sent to landfill, despite the construction of two new state-of-the-art recycling-friendly plants at Farington, near Leyland, and Thornton, at a cost of £283million.

And the combined inefficiencies of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme has left a near £5million hole in the county council's accounts.

Taxpayers across Lancashire are already paying £400million in interest to Australian contractors Global Renewables Ltd (GRL) over the 25-year lifetime of the £2billion PFI deal.

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[Martin]

Does anyone have contact details or know of any local action groups in the area around the waste plant?

[Top Cat]

Hi Martin
I am acting chair of R.A.W.S. (Residents Against Waste Site) which was the original protest group formed to oppose the building of the Waste Plant. We became a Company Limited by Guarantee and took the LCC to the High Court by way of Judicial Review but unfortunately were unable to stop the building although we did achieve some concessions and alterations etc. The group are almost defunct although we do maintain a sort of watching brief and have sought legal advice on a couple of issues since the plant started operating. The Company is registered with Companies House as a dormant company and may possibly be wound up later this year or next depending upon how things develop. To the best of my knowledge there are no other organised groups in the area. Why, what are you thinking?

[Martin]

Hi Tim, I'll send you an email from someone who wants to get in touch.

[noel]

I went past the plant tonight the smell is as bad as it's ever been. How can that be OK to work in or breath?

[LDunlop76]

If it's bad in February, what's it going to be like in a heatwave?

[Martin]

Lancashire Waste Technology Park is planning to double the size of its chimneys to try to get rid of odours upsetting neighbours.

Residents in Farington have been complaining about the stenches coming from Lancashire Waste Technology Park in Sustainability Way, Leyland, for more than a year.

Now bosses at the £320m site, a joint venture between Global Renewables and Lancashire County Council, have applied for planning permission to extend five biofilter exhaust chimney stacks in a bid to tackle the smells.

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[noel]

There's a letter on there saying "The residents of Farrington have been given £100,000 as part of a compensation package. This will be spent by the Parish Council. This is part of a levy charged for breaches by, I believe, LCC."

Farington please ONE R!! And it should be Farington Moss, not the other Farington.

[Hector]

Somewhere on the FORUM SITE, is comment put on by bruce benjamin,after the meeting on the monday 18th, where assurances were given that the RTO (fire) was going to be functioning by June, 2013, it was also disclosed that the German company had been selected to retro-fit this item, BECAUSE, they have fitted more than 40 of these plants across Europe, ALL with the RTO as origonal fitting,AND NO PROBLEMS WITH STINK, THE CLOWNS at LCC, to save money and this socialist-carbon-tax elected to omit this essential piece of equipment, However these same pencil-pushing clowns, have NOW decided after 3 years of complaints, meetings, where EXPENSIVE UNIVERSITY experts assured the residents that there was no DANGER, to spend £3,000,000 to retro-fit this RTO, Due to my incompetance I cannot find where on the FORUM the report was. can you help

[Martin]

Are you looking for the Nazi style propaganda that we sometimes put up with?