Bilsthorpe R.A.G.E (Residents against Gasification Experiment)
GAP Plumbing & Heating come from a former mining village in the north of Nottinghamshire. Bilsthorpe is a pleasant village in the heart of the countryside, but someone, somewhere has decided that Bilsthorpe will be the target for any eyesore, pong, experiment, noise etc. that is proposed for the locality. The village has already had the landfill and the wind turbines and now the latest proposal for this countryside village is a multi-million pound incinerator or, as the developers Peel Environmental refer to it, a Gasification Experiment to be constructed on the former colliery site.
Peel Environmental states that the incinerator will provide 46 jobs. Locals believe that this promise of jobs is simply to win favour with the planners, that the jobs will not be offered to the people of Bilsthorpe, but an experienced workforce will be brought in from other areas.
The residents of Bilsthorpe are understandably extremely concerned and have formed an action group called R.A.G.E (Residents against Gasification Experiment) www.bilsthorpe.com. R.A.G.E have decided to hold regular meetings to prepare a campaign to bring the community of Bilsthorpe and surrounding villages together to oppose the incinerator. The proposed incinerator will have 200 foot chimneys with the fumes and gases travelling much further, affecting towns and villages in a wide radius.
Local representatives Mark Spencer MP, Cllr Bruce Laughton and Cllr John Peck are totally opposed to this plant being built in Bilsthorpe.
R.A.G.E is totally opposed to the Gasification Experiment. Why?
The increased risk of cancer and respiratory disease through exposure to mercury and dioxins. These toxins are persistent and bioaccumulative, they resist breakdown in the environment and are concentrated in the food chain.
The waste gasification adds both directly and indirectly to the build-up of greenhouse gasses in the earth’s atmosphere.
Many of the materials that provide the best fuel for a gasification facility are the sorts of things most easily reused, recycled and composted. This facility takes us in the wrong direction requiring us to feed it 120,000 tonnes of waste annually.
The next R.A.G.E meeting is on Thursday, 23rd January 2014 at 1845 in the St John Ambulance building on Eakring Road, Bilsthorpe. If you live in the locality, you support is welcomed.
The proposed Bilsthorpe Energy Centre (incinerator). Have your say.
by Unknown - 19:22 on 26 January 2014
Nottinghamshire County Council has extended the consultation period in order thar local people can comment on a planning application for the proposed development of the Bilsthorpe Energy Centre (incinerator).
The development, which is intended to be built on land at the site of the Former Bilsthorpe Colliery off Eakring Road, would manage waste materials using a Plasma Gasification process to produce electricity. The consultationeiod for this planning application began on 5th December 2013 and was due to end on 20th January 2014. However, it will now continue til Friday 7th February 2014, enabling people more time to submit their views.
Sally Gill, Head of Planning at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “When the planning application was originally put out to consultation at the beginning of December 2013, we increased the statutory three-week period of public consultation to six and half weeks in acknowledgement of the scale of the proposals and the Christmas and New Year period. “However, since the consultation began, local County Councillors, the local MP and a number of local residents have expressed concern that even this extended period of time is not sufficient for them to study the application and register their concerns. “In acknowledgement of these concerns, the County Council is extending the consultation period further until Friday 7 February 2014. “We believe this new end date allows sufficient time for local residents to submit their representations without unnecessarily delaying the processing of the application.”
Details of the planning application are available to be viewed either at Bilsthorpe Library or at Nottinghamshire County Council and Newark and Sherwood Offices in West Bridgford and Kelham. The documents are also available to view on-line through the Nottinghamshire County Council website.
For more information visit the Council’s website at www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/search-applications.htm
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