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'Waltham Forest Residents Against Pollution' protest against incinerators (photo Bob Severn) |
"WALTHAM FOREST: Three waste plants to be built"
"THREE multi-million pound waste processing plants could be built in Waltham Forest. Six new processing plants are needed in north London, and London Mayor Ken Livingstone has decided the borough should house half of them. The proposed sites are:
- Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow,
- the Lea Bridge Gateway in Leyton, and
- the Central Leaside Business area, on the Chingford/Enfield border.
"Jenny Bates, London-based campaigner for 'Friends of the Earth', said:
"Incinerating anything that we can recycle or compost is a complete waste of resources. Incineration is also a climate change problem, not a solution, emitting 33 per cent more fossil fuel-derived CO2 than a gas-fired power station."
"WALTHAMSTOW: Residents to march against waste plan"
"Campaign group 'Residents Against Pollution' (RAP) is angry that the Blackhorse Lane area of Walthamstow has been chosen as a possible site for a waste management facility, which includes an incinerator or hazardous waste-processing facility, as part of the North London Waste Plan (NLWP).
"Paula Mitchell, a RAP member, said:
"Blackhorse Lane is earmarked by the planners as an industrial area, but it is also a residential area, with a higher-than-average proportion of children and people with limiting, long-term illness.
There has been only one workshop in Waltham Forest, with only 20 local people at it. [Ahem. Including, we seem to remember, us!] The vast majority of residents know nothing about the plans."
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