Incinerator decision may not be made until autumn (From Bucks Free Press)

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  Joe Ordinary wrote:
  Quote: "The Planning Inspector may look very carefully at the relative cost of land fill and recycling compared to unproven and expensive treatment e.g. composting or EfW."
  
  On at least two previous occassions 'the relative cost of land fill ...compared to...........EfW' has been investigated and the conclusion reached was that EfW was comparatively cheaper.
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  'unproven and expensive treatment e.g. composting or EfW' is an unevidenced statement which is, simply, untrue. EfW is a proven system in effective use across the globe - Canada and The Nederlands are noted examples of countries which have extensively and successfully adopted this solution to the problems of refuse disposal.
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  The argument about whether or not EfW is a viable solution to Bucks' landfill / refuse disposal problems was won 4-5 years ago following consultations at which BCC was actively, but unsuccessfully, promoting alternative solutions which were demonstrated to be less effective / efficient than EfW.
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  Nobody has attempted to present a reasoned and rational argument which changes the decision that EfW is a viable solution to Bucks' landfill / refuse disposal problems.
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  What we are dealing with here is a simple NIMBY problem where a group of intelligent and informed people have successfully blocked the adoption of a policy democratically arrived at by our representatives effectively by initiating a series of unsuccessful appeals and by threatening their democratically elected representatives with deselection / de-election.
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  All of this is costing all of the Council Tax payers in Bucks who have to pay the surcharge created by our excessive use of landfill not to mention the fact that this excessive use of landfill is damaging the environment.
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  Come on Councillors, gather together your morals and scruples and get on with implementing the decision democratically arrived at after logical and rational consideration of the available facts. Stop allowing these unreasonable NIMBYers from imposing unnecessary costs and environmental damage upon the residents of Bucks.

  "environmental damage" is then OK if it's in someone else's back yard; e.g. another 30 years of vehicular pollution at Booker following the closure of the tip?
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  Failure to present the TRUE and total cost of the composting at High Heavens including the cost of a new sewer, inability to sell the product, inability to cope with demand, perfume spraying, tankering out of waste, transferring the composted product to land-fill together with total collection and transport costs does not give anyone confidence that the current policy for waste disposal is competent.
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  Though there is little doubt that EfW may now be the only option, the method and medium for collection and transport leaves everything to be desired. It is also true that Bucks still has huge land-fill capacity since London and Bristol have stopped exporting here, and that the financial viability of alternatives is calculated by inclusion of the hypothetical EU surcharge, "fining" councils for employing this method.
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  With the increased improvement in recycling, all methods should now be reconsidered with truthful and honest costing.
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  The electorate act individually on their own behalf, all wanting the representative who will do best for them; to infer that councillors are being threatened, is to suggest that democracy does not work after all.
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  By the way, thanks for the commercial."
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