A new waste incinerator handling a maximum 300,000 tonnes of refuse a year is to be built near Cannock.
Sources within Staffordshire County Council have revealed the incinerator is likely to be built at the Four Ashes Industrial Estate, off the A449.
The council today rushed out a statement claiming it had made no decision on any specific site but said it was gearing up to apply for planning permission.
Most of the rubbish handled by the incinerator is expected to be domestic refuse from surrounding districts.
Any ash from the site which cannot be recycled will have to be buried at a registered landfill – likely to be Poplars in Cannock.
Councillor Tony Williams, cabinet member for environment at Cannock Chase Council, said: “If this is true that it is going to Four Ashes I am concerned about the impact it will have on our roads.
“With that much waste I would think we could see hundreds of extra waste trucks coming through Cannock every week.”
The county council said the facility would generate enough energy to power 20,000 homes and was a better option for the environment than landfill.
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Why cant they build the incinerator at Polars, where all the lorries go anyway????
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Hi,
I read in the Express and Star with horror tonight. Four Ashes, (for ashes). Yes it looks like we are to be getting a super burner on our doorstep. We are a very small, once green and pleasant hamlet of fourteen residential properties; they seem to dump every nasty bit of S.H.one.T going here.
In the past it was fallout from clinical waste, not very nice for breakfast dinner tea and supper. But being so few and away from the masses we are ignored. We already are overrun with traffic charging past day and night to the industrial estate, which seems to grow rapidly. To exit our drive as become a work of art. I am thinking of applying for permission to build a launch pad. Although a thirty zone you will be hard pressed to clock one that slow. Workers walking down the road from the bus stop on the A449 keep warm by shaking with fear at the passing traffic.
So it looks like, pollution, pollution, and pollution. Not only South Staffs rubbish but also Walsall and Warwick’s, which will be transported daily in fleets of lorries (because they have kicked out the idea of dumping on there own doorstep)
What ever happened to the brown field sites! Well that’s where all the people drive from, for miles every day to Four Ashes!!!
Environmentally friendly I think not.
Terry Rhodes(Yep you guessed it! From Four Ashes
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What took these clowns so long to even think about this incinerator, i mentioned on this site many months ago that in Sweden they had been using incernerators like this for a long time and heated homes etc through this scheme, hey Cannock Council and Staffordshire County Council did do know the Swedes run their bus’s on gas to cut out emissions think about this for several months then claim it as your own idea again:)) D–cheads
Get snouts out the trough party
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I have today 14.11 received the bravado from s staffs council through my door (Coven) and this project paints a shiny picture of EFW. However after looking on the internet it is very disturbing to know the real truth behind EFW, I would further encourage anyone in the local (5 Mile Radius) to research the TRUTH and then make your own mind up. If you do not like what you read dont sit there and wait for it to happen around you do something now and campaign to South Staffs Council. This in my mind will will destroy our area and pose major risks to our future health and lives.
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