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News Articles
Council rejects incinerator plan
BBC News
August 18th, 2009
BBC News
August 18th, 2009
Controversial plans for a £43m waste incinerator in Invergordon have been rejected by Highland Council.
Burner booklet banned
UK Without Incineration Network
July 27th, 2009
UK Without Incineration Network
July 27th, 2009
A booklet promoting a SITA incinerator proposal has been banned by the UK Advertising Standards Authority due to a large number of factual errors.
Up in Smoke
The Copenhagen Post Online
July 3rd, 2009
The Copenhagen Post Online
July 3rd, 2009
News that the Danish Energy Agency is stalling on plans to introduce new trash incineration plants should be welcomed by anyone who likes to breathe clean air.
Press Releases
The EU Policy of Subsidising Energy from Burning Waste is Worsening the Climate
Brussels, Belgium. 30th June 2010. GAIA’s new report “When the EU wastes the climate” warns about the negative impacts on the climate and sustainability stemming from current EU policies to reward energy from incineration.
GAIA Questions Nomination of New Climate Action Commissioner
GAIA warns about the nomination of Connie Hedegaard as EU commissioner for climate action because of her support to a dirty technology such as incineration. When compared the emissions of an incinerator produce more CO2 [1] than a gas or coal power plant.
EU funded incinerator plans in Poland consign recycling bins to scrapheap
Warsaw, Poland -- An announcement from the Polish city of Bydgoszcz that it plans to end its waste separation collection scheme by the end of this year end has been criticised by CEE Bankwatch Network's member group Polish Green Network. The proposed move comes as Bydgoszcz looks to become the first Polish city to receive EU funds for the development of a new waste incinerator by 2012. [1]
Updates
2,000 March Against Incinerator in San Sebastian
At least 2,000 people march in the streets of San Sebastian in the Basque Region of Spain to protest against the construction of an incinerator.
EU Waste Framework Directive: End of the Road
On June 17, 2008, the European Parliament approved a weak, industry-friendly Waste Framework Directive.
GAIA and Allies in the News
European recovery funds to build incinerators
The European Economic Recovery Plan will invest in environmentally damaging projects, including 22 incinerators in Central and Eastern Europe.
EUROPE: European recovery funds to build incinerators
by Claudia Ciobanu, InterPress Service
by Claudia Ciobanu, InterPress Service
13 May, 2009. Bucharest, Romania. The European Economic Recovery Plan devised by the European Commission last year to help deal with the financial crisis is likely to fast-track environmentally damaging projects in the new member states, including 22 municipal waste incinerators.
Court to quash Capel consent
UK Without Incineration Network
UK Without Incineration Network
High Court to quash planning consents for a Mass Burn Incinerator at Clockhouse Brickworks, Capel
The planning consents approved by Surrey County Council on 9 December 2008 for a mass burn incinerator at Clockhouse Brickworks, Capel are to be quashed following a hearing before Mr Justice Collins in the High Court on 28 and 29 January 2009.
