What do the Turks & Caicos Islands have in common with a waste incinerator proposed for West Norfolk, and the most decisive referendum result in British electoral history?  We explain below.   The Turks & Caicos Islands are a former Caribbean pirate hideout, first sighted by the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon in 1512.  [...]

You can now  keep up to date with news in KLWIN’s  newsletter ‘The Burner.’  This paper newsletter will be posted  in some areas, can be downloaded from our ‘What Can You Do?’ page, and will be available in some newsagents.  Unlike the County Council’s inappropriately titled ‘Your Rubbish Your Choice’ it’s also free! We’ve decided [...]

From an early stage, those promoting the waste incinerator identified what they saw as its main benefits.  These have been used to promote incineration to the public and planning consultees, and may also have influenced DEFRA’s opinion.  One of these apparent benefits was the, ‘Potential to supply cheap heating for local businesses or residents.’   [...]

Norfolk County Council has long argued the incinerator will help ‘avoid’ emissions of CO2.  They’ve claimed ‘savings’ of 70,000 tonnes/year compared to landfill.  This has always been difficult to believe, since combusting waste releases CO2 to the atmosphere.  At long last we’ve been able to check County’s claims, and like so many of their statements [...]

  County Hall’s actions over the last two years show the lengths it will go to, to impose mass burn incineration upon an unwilling host community. Fortunately, County Hall isn’t in control of the situation, since an award of planning permission can be challenged in the courts, or be taken out of its hands altogether [...]