Thursday, March 16, 2006

FRIENDS of the EARTH

It's not just Rugby in Plume and other campaign groups, but also FOE who strongly criticise the Environment Agency: accusing them of :

* devaluing community influence
* weakening consultation
* making a cheap and easy worst-case route for disposal of hazardous wastes
* conflicting with the proximity principal
* failing to ensure access to information from the waste-burning trials
* allowing lower standards at cement kilns than incinerators (more emissions)

We have recently published a briefing for local campaign groups working on the burning of waste in kilns - please see the following link:

Burning waste in cement and lime kilns http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/waste_in_cement_kilns.pdf

We have also published a report looking at the siting of incinerators in area of deprivation:

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/incineration_deprivation.pdf

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