STOP BUILDING INCINERATORS IN WALES AND CLOSE DOWN THE OTHERS!

CoGen wants to build an incinerator in Cardiff which would burn 150,000 tonnes of waste a year. Such a plant undermines recycling and composting, worsens climate change, emits toxic gases harmful to health.
It would import waste from outside Wales contrary to the Proximity Principle of minimising transport-miles.
This type of plant is known for not working properly, breaking down and many have been closed. They also produce potentially lethal explosive gases endangering the surrounding location. This plant is not going to be near any potential heat users the efficiency of the plant is poor with some 60-70% of the heat it would generate being wasted. This flies in the face of Welsh Government policy for combined heat and power. As is also the case with the Splott incinerator. The so called guardians of our environment the NRW (Natural Resources Wales) have absolutely no expertise in these incinerators and therefore impossible to police. Indeed they are utterly failing in policing the existing Splott one. The waste they want to burn can easily be recycled without polluting anything. Burning mixed waste is highly dangerous in that it releases lethal toxins to all life forms, such as PM2.5, PM10, C02 carbon dioxide, which further adds to the already poor environment of south wales, therefore flying in the face of the global environmental accords such as Paris and Poland.
In operation this incinerator fumes are extremely dangerous due to the fact that the filter system has to be turned off for up to 4 hours during startup that's when the very high harmful pollutants are emitted. NRW does not even require measurements of it! These fumes do not disperse harmlessly, similar to the Splott one but circulate around the immediate urban area of Cardiff and have been known to be carried by wind over 100 miles. The toxins get released when burnt and rise into the air, and what goes up must come down, these poisons land in the earth and in the air you breath and the water that is around. The very life of everything on the planet is contaminated by it. Under an easterly wind, the emission plumes get trapped in the Cardiff environment exactly as the current Splott incinerator does today. NRW to please its political masters in the assembly assume a measurement of strong winds from the west and are measured in Rhoose airport not in Splott or St.Mellons or the Cardiff Bay.

CoGen’s plant would emit huge quantities of NOx and NO2 (toxic gas) which are uncontrolled by NRW yet are proven to be the most dangerous to health.  NRW and the Health authorities have ignored the Senedd report on incineration that stressed dangers from nano-particles such as PM2.5 which are so small as to penetrate through the lungs into body organs, including even the brain and an unborn child.
Past studies of urban areas around an incinerator of twenty miles have shown significant increases in child stillbirths and malformation, asthma, brain disease such as dementia, and heart disease.
These big business such as Co-gen and Viridor are very happy to put their profits before your health. CoGen is being pushed forward by Dr Liam Fox MP in England through the Department of Trade and Industry with no interest in what you want or worse still what's important for the environment. This is not about efficient methods of recycling waste it is all about speculative profit making by big business on the backs of the tax payers.
Cardiff’s Viridor incinerator came because of Welsh government encouragement and subsidy, though contrary to policy for local, efficient CHP plants. Cardiff officers encouraged the plant too – a big mistake.  No way should we have another mega-incinerator!  There is no calorific value in burning metal, glass, food or cardboard. They really only want the plastic which is a complex oil based product which release deadly poisons. Cardiff is now the Incinerator happy hunting ground and unless you act and stop it more will come.