Waste plant: More tenders invited

Monday 20th July 2009, 3:00PM BST.

Work is already under way on the energy-from-waste plant

JERSEY firms are being invited to tender for work on the Island’s new energy-from-waste plant at a ‘meet the contractor’ event on Thursday.

The new plant, which replaces Bellozanne incinerator, will be a conventional facility with modern flue gas treatment and a steam turbine.

The primary contract has been awarded to a consortium led by French firm Construction Industrielles de la Mediterrane and including a joint venture between French company Spie Batignolles, a civil engineering specialist, and Camerons Jersey – known as SBC.

Camerons will be building the main structures, including all civil works, steel works and the internal fit-out of the buildings.

But Economic Development say there are a large number of opportunities’ for subcontractors and suppliers. Thursday’s event takes place at the La Collette site from 8 am.

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david brown

July 20, 2009 at 3:56 pm

good a step in the right direction.
good luck to all jersey firms attending.

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Nick

July 21, 2009 at 11:17 am

I still say that this is a classic case of the lack of joined up thinking on this whole process.I still say we should have got together with the other islands and an area on the French coast opposite that has an under utilised port, plenty of ex-commercial or third grade agricultural land available, with road and rail links Europe wide. We could all then have developed both Incinerator,Re-cycling and Sewage process and disposal facilities for all the areas concerned in a place where there would be room for ongoing expansion without problem.There would be advantages for all areas concerned including the French region involved.As for Jersey the La Collette development could be changed to be a covered rubbish sorting facility and dock for the inter island garbage vessels (NY style) to take the pre-sorted rubbish away.This would still mean jobs now for local contractors, and ongoing jobs in several locations with the new scheme.It would also mean no pollution problem,no unsitely buildings as a first impression for all those visitors and cruise ship passengers arriving dockside St Helier.
As for the Sewage treatment situation this would be solved by a large pipe from Bellozanne across to the new facility in France.
The whole thing could be joint financed, there would be no local recycling problems caused by lack of space to store recovered product when the demand falls away (As at present), Bellozanne could be rehabilitated,no accidental raw sewage discharge into St Aubin’s Bay,state of the art facilities situated where there are good ongoing road and rail links and with room to expand to deal with future volume when necessary.
As the lead contractor is French maybe a change of venue to France and a larger scale development might be sufficient incentive to consider a renegotiation?

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Jersey Henry

July 21, 2009 at 10:47 pm

Hey!
Do we really want Guernsey’s rubbish in our Island?
I am sure our States never agreed to have 30,000 tons of smelly rubbish travelling through St. Helier harbour.
That’s 100 tons a day!
What about the mountain of ash and fly ash?
I say – don’t let it happen.

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Nick

July 25, 2009 at 1:10 pm

Precisely Jersey Henry, exactly why I am pushing so hard for a rethink here.With Garbage ships you can easily move 100 tons a day directly to France from both Islands. The French have plenty of coastline to site a facility for loading and unloading well away from residential areas. They also have acres of ex agricultural land,most of it probably in set aside, so they have plenty of room to site state of the art processing facilities well away from population centres, with enough room to increase capacity if nessessary in the future!They also have room to stockpile recycled material when demand for it falls (As is happening here at present)without creating a problem (As is happening somewhere on this Island at present without our knowing about it!)
Even without Guernsey’s rubbish, what will the situation be at La Collette (Particularly in a hot summer)when this incinerator breaks down? Result piles of uncovered household refuse building up creating a dreadful stink, along with thousands of seagulls carrying and dropping scavenged decaying foodstuffs all over St Helier!
This whole local scheme has lacked any forethought or imagination in the planning stage (Although I’m open to somebody taking me up on that statement to set my mind at rest if they can?) and future residents and visitors are going to pay the price of this folly both healthwise, and environmentally.(And with the muck up on the financing they are even having to pay, to pay!)
I have already had an “I don’t give a monkey’s” post in response to another post I made pointing this out. That was from a UK resident who also said “No-one goes to Jersey anymore so who cares”
Obviously not those in the States responsible for this debacle, who at the same time talk about attracting cruise liners to the Island!
Most of these go presently to Guernsey now anyway.One reason being that St Peter Port looks so quaint and picturesque from the sea as they arrive! (Shame about the rest of the Island!joke). In Jersey it’s the other way round only our visitors, just coming for the day,don’t get to see the rest of the Island and will now leave with the impression we are an enormous rubbish tip and industrial complex with pretensions to be another Manhattan!If I was in Guernsey Tourism I’d push to start shipping rubbish to St Helier tomorrow!
For Heaven’s sake someone in the Jersey States who can do something to stop this even at this late stage, “WAKE UP!” or forever smell the rubbish!

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