Just use Jersey’s incincerator, Guernsey told
Saturday 6th February 2010, 2:57PM GMT.
Guernsey's waste is currently dumped at the Mont Cuet landfill site. Picture: Peter Frankland (0779354)
THE Guernsey States have been urged by a contractor on the La Collette incinerator project to back moves to ship their waste here rather than build their own incinerator.
Garenne Group chief executive Andy Hall, whose firm Cameron’s are working on the project, says that Guernsey would be better off with a £4 million waste shipping section at the port and paying Jersey to burn their rubbish, rather than building a £93 million incinerator of their own.
Plans are progressing on a new ‘Suez’ incinerator in Guernsey, but a last-ditch attempt to stop it is being made by Deputy Jan Kuttelwascher. The matter is to be debated in Guernsey’s States soon.
Mr Hall wrote to the Guernsey Press saying that a £4 million solution that worked for 15 years was better than a £93 million plan that worked for 25 years.
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i would hope that the shipping of the rubbish would go to a new local company, and not the ones that are here now, new jobs and new money, shame that there is not a berth for a ship or barge close to the incinerator with a crane to unload the vessel , more lorries on the roads near the docks? , or will tts do the work.
should be a job for life one would hope , a local may be able to buy a house on the strength of this lucrative contract.
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Common sense. Unfortunately common sense is not that common in Jersey/Guernsey.
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got to be better than building their own monstrosity
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I did write that the incinerator should have been built at Plemont it would be considerably closer than la collette for Guernsey’s burnable waste. A great big open hopper barge moored along the cliffs would have attracted the sea birds and with them a wealth of tourist ornithologists.
If Guernsey is to make use of OUR incinerator it would be a good idea to make them pay for the service monthly up in advance. Yes I think it is a brilliant idea Guernsey pays us to burn their rubbish from which we generate electricity that we sell back to them. As usual Jersey’s superior leadership. Well done Mr. Andy Hall of the Garrene Group, we will make a Jerseyman of you yet.
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So the less than internationally compliant Environmental Impact Statements etc etc were based on burning Jersey rubbish at predicted volumes and masses next to a Ramsar site. This would significantly increase the outputs of all types from the Elephant Fairly White (EFW) so are we going to see proportionally re-vamped EIS and EIAs will we Heck!
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Piston Broke maybe I missed the irony in your post, but if not:
1.So you think the idea of a dump at Pleamont is a good idea and it would attracted sea birds in quantities sufficient to fuel an ornithologists paradise. LIKELY INDEED.
2. “Yes I think it is a brilliant idea Guernsey pays us to burn their rubbish from which we generate electricity that we sell back to them.” YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW INEFFICIENT THE INCCINERATOR WILL BE WHEN IT COMES TO ELECTRICITY GENERATION. THE PLANT IS ONLY HALF THE REQUIRED SIZE TO BE CLASSED AS AN ENERGY FROM WASTE PLANT.
3. “As usual Jersey’s superior leadership. Well done Mr. Andy Hall of the Garrene Group, we will make a Jerseyman of you yet. REALLY, SO GUERNSEY PRESERVE THEIR COASTLINE AND AT THE SAME TIME AVOID ALL THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WHITH SUCH A PLANT. AND,THEN WHILE PAYING JERSEY A SMALL FEE TO DEAL WITH THEIR RUBBISH, THEY GET ON WITH TACKLING THE PROBLEM PROPERLY AND REDUCING THEIR WASTE AND IMPROVING RECYCLING.
YES INDEED ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF JERSEY’S LEADERSHIP.
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Your children would inhale all the toxins Guernsey produces now as well as Jersey’s
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The monster of an incinerator has now proved beyond doubt to be much too large for the amount of rubbish Jersey produces. A beautiful coastline destroyed for no particular reason.
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There is already a place that the ship from Guernsey could unload. It is Victoia Pier where the Ronez ships unload. This pier used to have permanent cranes, but they have been dismantled and taken away. But there would be nothing to stop them from having a mobile crane to unload the ship.
The pier is probably about 1/2 a mile away from the incinerator site and the lorries would not have to go through town at all. This pier is also used to unload other ships from time to time.
I think that it would be a very good idea. Also if both islands increased their recycling rates, then having 2 separate incinerators would mean that both would be working at undercapicity and would not be as efficient as they should be.
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This is the reason Senator Ozouf wanted the incinerator built at La Collette all along – the idea was always to make money from taking in Guernsey’s waste – never mind the fact that it is the worst possible place to build an incinerator or the damage to the Island’s coastline.
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Right on the doorstep where the majority of residents live.
St.Helier the biggest dumping ground for all things the rest of the island don,t want on THEIR doorstep?
And now guernseys waste as well.
Its ok for them who came up with this plan they won,t have to breathe the toxins 24/7.
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skip scavenger(9). quite true, i had forgotten about the vic pier as a fully working quay.
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This is a good common sense suggestion. Energy from waste plants work less efficiently and are likely to pollute more if the optimum capacity of the plant is not being met. Taking Guernsey’s waste and being paid to incinerate it will resolve this issue. In addition the combined saving in CO2 emission of the two islands will be substancial and a useful contribution to the necessary efforts the Channel Islands should be making to Global Warming. On every count it makes sense.
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