STOP Aylesbury Vale Incineration - SAVI
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SAVI Press Releases June 2010.
SAVI warns WRG Ltd already in talks with HS2 to provide energy for High Speed Rail link: ‘double jeopardy’ threats to Aylesbury and the Vale
SAVI Press Release June 2010.
SAVI (Stop Aylesbury Vale Incineration) today warns of immediate threat of mass burn incineration in Bernwood Forest, Vale of Aylesbury
SAVI Press Release Monday 14th September 2009.
At the cabinet meeting of BCC this morning the council selected Covanta Energy as their preferred bidder at the Stewartby site.
A message for all SAVI Supporters
'SAVI supporters, we are so very grateful to you all for the efforts that all of you have gone to in order to support the campaign against mass burn incineration, especially at the Lower Greatmoor Farm site. This decision today by BCC is only the beginning. Covanta still have to acquire planning permission from Bedfordshire county council to build their mass burn incinerator at Stewartby. We are not yet home and dry. For that reason SAVI will continue to exist and to fight MBI, we can only do this successfully with the ongoing help of all our supporters. During this week the SAVI steering group will meet to formulate plans for our ongoing opposition to MBI, please keep watching the website for updates. We strongly urge you to continue to support us, this isn't just about the health, wealth and environment of our immediate vicinity, its national and global. This somewhat hollow victory has been won at the expense of the health and environment of families who live near to the site at Stewartby. We remain convinced that MBI is NOT the answer to our waste issues.'
The Scottish Viewpoint - A Statement by Robin Harper,
20 parish councils have now passed resolutions opposing the waste incinerator/EfW proposals.
These are: Quainton • Marsh Gibbon • Calvert Green • Grendon Underwood • Oakley • Boarstall • Westcott • Swanbourne • Aston Abbotts • Coldharbour • Steeple Claydon • Winslow Town Council • Charndon • Aston Clinton • Buckland • Hillesden • Middle Claydon • Padbury • East Claydon • Stewkley
The Scottish Viewpoint - A Statement by Robin Harper, Green MSP
"The tide is turning in Scotland against mass burn incineration, with unsustainable projects in the Highlands and in East Lothian both rejected just in the last six weeks. This approach to waste is a dead end, one that misses the opportunities from recycling and waste reduction, and I would hope that Buckinghamshire Council realises this before it's too late. Best of luck with the campaign from the Greens in the Scottish Parliament." - Robin Harper, Green MSP
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Just this afternoon (July 29) we have learned that Buckinghamshire County Council have, yet again, moved the goalposts. The cabinet meeting at which the council intended to confirm the preferred bidder for the mass burn incineration development, originally planned for 13 July, moved to 28 September is now re-scheduled (again) to 14 September. This is when we will learn which of the two remaining bidders, WRG and Lower Greatmoor Farm, Edgcott site or Coventa and Rookery Pit, Stewartby, Bedfordshire site, will be the chosen partner for BCC's mass burn incineration development. Interestingly BCC forgot to consult the public on the Rookery Pit plans until recently.
Time is therefore now tight for SAVI and their supporters to voice opposition in time to influence the cabinet members who will make the decision. All SAVI supporters must now please redouble their efforts to make local councillors aware of our total opposition to these plans. The SAVI CLEAN GREEN RALLY is now arranged for Saturday 12 September. Following a gathering of supporters in Kingsbury Square in Aylesbury at 11 am when the assembly will be addressed by a person of note (yet to be decided) we will then walk the short distance to County Hall and on the steps of that building present the written petition. Local and national press will be in attendance.For more details email Jo Wood. If you want this stopped please come and support us.
BBC Three Counties Interview
"Conservative local authorities not following Conservative policy on waste"
Press Conference - John Bercow - 11th July, Woodlands Barn, Doddershall
Press conference on 11th July with John Bercow highlighting the dangers to the environment of mass burn incineration and the cleaner greener safer alternatives.
SAVI supporters are increasing in number by the day.
In an unprecedented move last week Quainton parish council passed a resolution in which they formally oppose proposals to site an incineration plant at Lower Greatmoor Farm, Edgcott. Marsh Gibbon followed suit at their meeting on Tuesday evening with this resolution passed unanimously, Marsh Gibbon Parish Council opposes the proposal for waste incineration at the Lower Greatmoor Farm site and opposes any further development of the waste processing facilities at the existing site nearby at Calvert.
A number of other brave parish councils look set to follow the lead set by Quainton and Marsh Gibbon. Well done ladies and gentlemen this is truly democracy in action. You are the first tier of representation of the views of the residents in our communities, if the County Council do not wish to listen to SAVI perhaps they will listen to you.
GREENS WIN HOLYROOD VOTE AGAINST
"LANDFILL IN THE SKY"
GREEN MSP MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release 11 June 2009
Parliament today endorsed Green opposition to plans for a new generation of incinerators, now rebranded as "energy from waste" plants. Green MSP Robin Harper brought forward an amendment (1) to this effect to today's Scottish Government motion, and both the amendment and the final motion as amended were passed at Decision Time...
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Irish Government considers introducing incineration tax
Liz Gyekye 19 May 2009
» Full details (third party web site)
SAVI meets Cllr. Martin Tett
at the Clean Green Rally
on Saturday 12th September 2009
Height of incinerator chimney compared to Bucks County Hall building in Aylesbury and a local windmill at Quainton.
We ask:
- Do you care about the health of our children and families?
- Do you value your home and our environment?
- Is the rural nature of Aylesbury Vale important?
E-mail: info@besavi.co.uk
