Friends of the Earth Cardiff Cyfeillion y Ddaear Caerdydd

The Environment Agency has announced that it is 'minded' to give the go-ahead to a massive, polluting and wasteful incinerator at Ocean Park in Cardiff. However it is not too late to change their minds.

The Agency will be holding a public drop-in session on Friday 30 July, from 2-7pm in the Star Leisure Centre on Splott Road, Cardiff. If you live in Splott, Butetown, Adamsdown or anywhere else in Cardiff, please go to the session and raise your concerns with them.

In a shock move, Cardiff Council have granted planning permission to Viridor's second application for an incinerator in Splott. This is in spite of the fact that the new application is almost identical to the first application which was refused by the Council. This was an unwelcome surprise as Cardiff Friends of the Earth had phoned the council before the planning meeting and been told that Viridor's application would not be heard. Not only was Viridor's application for the incinerator heard at the meeting, but planning permission was also granted.

Viridor Waste Management have submitted a second planning application for a large incinerator or “energy from waste facility” in Cardiff. This application is almost identical to the first one which was rejected by Cardiff Council. The proposed Viridor incinerator would be at Trident Park in Splott, between Ocean Way and the docks. It would burn 350,000 tonnes of waste a year.

Cardiff County Council's planning committee rejected Viridor's first application for a huge, polluting and wasteful incinerator at Trident Park, Glass Avenue, Splott in June 2009. The reason the planning committee gave was that waste would be brought to be burnt in the incinerator from outside the local area.

Viridor submitted an appeal to the National Assembly for Wales against the decision in October 2009. The public inquiry for the appeal will be held in July 2010.

Cardiff Friends of the Earth has several concerns about Viridor's applications for an incinerator in Cardiff.

Waste company Viridor has announced plans to build a massive incinerator in Cardiff Bay to dispose of our rubbish.

If approved, it would:

• be capable of burning three times as much rubbish as Cardiff sends to landfill sites every year
• take waste from across south Wales
• discourage more efforts to increase recycling and composting

Cardiff Friends of the Earth says

Anti-incinerator protest planned for planning meeting on 11 March 2009

Members of Cardiff Friends of the Earth are inviting people to join them and other local residents in a demonstration outside Cardiff City Hall at 1.30 pm on Wednesday (11 March), as the council's planning committee rules on proposals for a large waste incinerator in the city.

Cardiff Friends of the Earth have submitted an objection to Viridor's planning application to Cardiff County Council Planning Department.

The objection, compiled for Cardiff Friends of the Earth by the South East Wales Friends of the Earth Waste Group, objects to the planning application on the following grounds:

Splott PACT (Partnership and Communities Together) have organised a community presentation and meeting to discuss the incinerator.

Details:

The venue:  the Methodist Centre at 69B Splott Road

The date: Saturday 7th February

The time slot: 10:00 am – 12:00 noon

Viridor and their PR company, Good Relations, will be there in addition to Cardiff Friends of the Earth.

It is not just Cardiff, or even just South Wales, communities that will be adversely affected by the incinerator if Viridor's planning application is approved – communities in Cheltenham are concerned about the impact of the toxic fly ash from the Cardiff incinerator which will be dumped within 0.5km of some homes.