Haringey Cabinet Member: "I recognise the scale of the challenge which the [overall] plan faces"

Link to comments on
Haringey web site

(Comments by Haringey Councillor Nilgun Canver in 2009)

"Well-designed facilities can bring many benefits and opportunities. It's crucial that we find the right sites, and put in place the right policies.

"We must ensure that the new waste facilities that we need are well designed, good neighbours, fit for purpose, and create opportunities for new jobs, new types of green industries, and for local heat and energy systems that can help in the fight against climate change."

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['Pinkham Way Incinerator' editorial:
This web site is happy to report comments like this by councillors and members of the public. However, we take the view that "local heat and energy" from residual domestic waste is a bad idea - as is "distant heat and energy" from such a source, for that matter. 

Pinkham Way may produce incinerator fuel for a 'gasifying incinerator' elsewhere. Please see the anti-incinerator arguments on UKWIN.

Another factor is that the north London boroughs find it difficult to "put in place the right policies", since they do not control the detailed use of the sites, beyond planning law - that is the responsibility of the North London Waste Authority. The NLWA, in turn, says it is "technology-neutral", and will choose between what the waste industry offers it, when companies bid for the 25 to 35-year NLWA contracts.]