Agreement galvanises opposition

01 November 2006
 
A £500M contract to slash the amount of waste sent to landfill in Cornwall by 90% has been formally signed.
Cornwall County Council selected French firm SITA in July, creating SITA Cornwall. However, the scheme has proved controversial because the contract would see an energy-from-waste plant built, together with six new household waste-recycling centres, seven redeveloped facilities to increase recycling, six refuse-transfer stations and five composting facilities.
The county’s Lib Dem members of parliament are opposed to the energy-from-waste aspect of the scheme. Matthew Taylor, MP for Truro and St Austell, told Surveyor he would push for a public inquiry into the plan as soon as SITA Cornwall asked for planning permission for the facility.
He said: ‘There is nothing we can really do at the moment, but when planning permission goes in for the site we will voice our opposition.’ And Andrew George, MP for St Ives, added: ‘We appreciate an inquiry is likely to be costly.
‘But it is important we have an opportunity to test many of the assumptions behind this particular solution and test the resolve of the Government to favour the type of energy-from-waste technology.’
The contract signing this week is the culmination of four years’ work by the county council, which began with a government inspector’s approval of the authority’s approach in 2002 following a public inquiry.
Cornwall’s, chief executive, Sheila Healey, said: ‘This contract will help protect our clean, green image as well as protecting council taxpayers from huge increases. ‘Over the life of the contract around £150M will be invested by SITA in upgrading existing waste facilities and developing new ones.’

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