Waste incinerator plans scrapped
Financial risks were too great
Councillors have voted to withdraw from a scheme to build a huge incinerator to get rid of Bedfordshire's waste.
Bedford Borough Council had already pulled out of the scheme, which is being led by Central Bedfordshire Council, and at Monday's (Dec 7) meeting of Luton Borough Council's executive committee, members voted to follow suit.
In a report to the executive, officers set out a long list of financial risks associated with the project.
But Lib Dem group leader David Franks said the project should never have been considered in the first place because of the dangers to the environment.
He said: "The council's own waste strategy document published in 2006 says the 'best practicable environmental option' should be sought for waste disposal.
"Incineration is quite simply the wrong option environmentally. The climate change impact of a mass burn incinerator is far greater than many other technologies, including mechanical and biological treatment.
"Studies differ on how much more environmentally damaging an 'energy from waste' incinerator plant is but no-one, including Defra, disputes that the technology is distinctly inferior on these grounds to other technologies."
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