Despite more than 230 objections from local residents, BCP Council officers have recommended that the controversial incinerator at Canford Magna be granted planning permission. Due to a legal technicality the final planning decision was deferred at September’s Western BCP Planning Meeting.
Campaigners from STOP PARLEY & CANFORD INCINERATORS gathered outside Bournemouth Civic Centre this morning as committee members arrived for the October meeting. The incinerator was not on the agenda today but will likely come before the same committee in November or December and campaigners wanted to make sure that their message is clear – that this “energy from waste” plant belching out toxins and forever chemicals is not needed and not wanted.
Liz Brereton, a counsellor from Bournemouth, said “The incinerator would be a disaster for human health and for the environment – there are better ways to deal with our waste. The government has promised a deposit return scheme to deal with plastic waste in a greener way but has allowed lobbying from multinational corporations such as Coca Cola and Unilever to delay its introduction. I remember when I was younger we used to collect bottles to take back to the shop to get the deposit back – we need to bring that back.”
The activists held bright placards with the message ‘Stop Parley Incinerator’ and wore gas masks whilst chanting “When the air we breathe is under attack, Stand up, Fight back!” and “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Don’t Burn!”
Steve Harper, a freelance designer also from Bournemouth explained “There are more than thirty schools within five kilometres of the proposed incinerator. The plumes from incinerators include heavy metals, dioxins and ultrafine particulate matter that can be harmful to human health. Children are particularly at risk from this pollution, as their immune systems, lungs and brains are still developing.”
Bournemouth property manager Greg Lambe, vice chair of Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group added “Chemicals released from incinerators can accumulate in the environment and negatively affect wildlife, especially marine mammals and freshwater species. There is an important heronry close to the proposed site and I am greatly concerned about the potential impact on the birds.”
The group has sworn to return at the next Western BCP Planning Meeting on November 7th.
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