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Cllr Jonathan Elmer is amongst those speaking out against the £2.1b plans NORTH-EAST councils have been pressured to drop £2.1 billion plans for a monster incinerator that will burn waste from across the region for decades to come. A potential 40-year project to burn rubbish from Newcastle, County Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton at a giant waste facility in Redcar was announced last year. The scheme, which will see about 450,000 tonnes of waste a year being sent to the site, has left environmental activists appalled. A Stop Incineration in the North-East (SINE) campaign has been launched to oppose the building of the plant, which for some has brought back troubling memories of the Byker ash scandal in Newcastle, in which the city council was prosecuted after 2,000 tonnes of ash from the old Byker incinerator was found to contain potentially cancer-causing dioxins.
North East councils urged to drop £2bn monster rubbish burner over climate emergency fears
The planned facility could incinerate waste from Newcastle, County Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton for 40 years
16:00, 11 MAR 2021
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North East councils have been urged to drop £2 billion plans for a âmonsterâ incinerator that will burn waste from across the region for decades to come.
Hope for 11,000 jobs at ex-steelworks as region s biggest ever planning application is submitted
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen says that the project had hit a major milestone
00:01, 21 DEC 2020
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Plans have now been submitted for more than nine million sq ft of business and industrial space on Teesside s former steelworks site in a major regeneration milestone.
PLANS for the regeneration of a former steelworks site have taken a step forward after an application for more than 780 acres of land was put forward. Proposals for more than nine million sq ft of business and industrial space, the region’s biggest ever planning application, have been submitted for the former SSI site in Redcar – now known as Teesworks – across an area of land as large as the City of London. If the plans come to fruition, it is hoped they will create up to 11,400 jobs in Teesside. Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said: “This is another major milestone for the former Redcar Steelworks site just days before Christmas.