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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Two Badly Needed PFI Waste Projects Hit By Major Planning Problems

Two big Waste Processing Facilities have been halted after UK County Council plans have been derailed well into these projects. The question is asked when our society which produces so much waste will take responsibility for dealing with it in their local area, even when enormous sums are about to be spent on a new generation of vastly improved Waste Treatment Plants.

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Wiltshire UK Council Approves Hills MBT Plant

23-03-2009
Wiltshire county council has given the go-ahead for Marlborough-based waste management company Hills Group to build a £15 million mechanical biological treatment (MBT) facility at Westbury.
The county council awarded planning permission last week (March 18) for Hills to develop the 45,000 tonne-a-year capacity plant, which will be known as the Northacre Recovery Centre, as part [...]

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