SITA Will Appeal Against Cornwall EfW Which Was Thrown Out at Planning Stage

SITA UK has, on September 2 revealed that it plans to lodge an appeal later this month against Cornwall county council’s March 2009 decision to refuse its planning application to build a £100 million, 240,000 tonne-a-year capacity energy-from-waste facility near St Dennis.
The company said that it had received written consent from the council to initiate [...]

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Oxwellmains EfW Rejection Follows Similar Rejection Path to Cornwall

Waste management firm Viridor has expressed its disappointment at East Lothian council’s decision to reject planning permission for its Dunbar combined heat and power plant despite “strong recommendation” for approval from the council’s planning officers.

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Time to Send in Your Abstracts for the Next Sardinia Conference

Call for Abstracts for the Twelfth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, 5 – 9 October 2009, S. Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy
The organisers of the top Waste and resource management conference are once again seeking papers from experts in their fields. To write a good quality paper and present it at the conference [...]

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ACR+ International Conference on Waste and Climate Change

ACR+ international conference on waste and climate change, is hosted by London Remade 
 
Venue:  Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD
 
Description:  Explore the role that waste management has to play in climate change in this topical international conference. High profile expert speakers from Europe and beyond will incite debate on a [...]

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Maryland US Project Gets Tax Credit for Landfill Gas-to-Energy Power

The US is getting greener? – The Waster.
A landfill gas-to-energy project in Baltimore County is receiving the first tax credit available through the Maryland Clean Energy Production Tax Credit Program.
The project developed by Pepco Energy Services, at Baltimore County´s Eastern landfill, was awarded a $770,661 tax credit under the program that began last year. The [...]

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ENERGEX 2008 MAIN TOPICS

ENERGY FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND
THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Policy, Economy & Technology

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Energy for Sustainable Development
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Combined Anaerobic Digestion/In Vessel Composting Plant Announced for Northamptonshire

A newly established organics company has announced this week that it will be opening a composting facility in Northamptonshire next April which will combine anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting.
The Bio Group, which formed this May as a joint venture between in-vessel specialists Cambridge Recycling Services (CRS), composting machinery providers Global Recycling Solutions as well as [...]

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NCE: Peterborough City Council Will Announce New Approach to Financing Waste

We are told (New Civil Engineer 24 may 2007) that Peterborough City Council has plans to announce a new approach to financing which it has devised with the Collaborative Working Centre. This will include financing models for a new £56 million energy from waste (EfW) incinerator.
It appears that two facilities are to be built in [...]

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UK Waste Strategy 2007 Published

We have added just one post about the New Waste Strategy which has just been published: To find out more about the Waste Strategy 2007 we recommend a visit to the Letsrecycle web site here.
 STRATEGY: Specific material type landfill bans on agenda
The first three chapters of Waste Strategy 2007 contain a number of key areas of [...]

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Canada Lagging Behind on Energy From Waste Technologies

Here is a News item from Canada:-
    ‘Proven technology turns waste into valuable resource for electricity production’.
    TORONTO, Jan. 31 /CNW/ – A leading operator of Energy From Waste (EFW) facilities says Canada is missing out on the untapped value of EFW technologies, which uses residential and commercial waste to generate electricity and reduces the [...]

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