Caithness to get incinerator

[dozy]

Well the secret is now out, as council employees confirm that there's a new incinerator in the pipeline and should be up and running by late 2020. Al the planning , financial package along with a site are all in place ,just don't tell the public .

[Goodfellers]

Surely Patrick Harvie MSP would have a right fit and stop the SNP from carrying out such an anti green policy?

[pig whisperer]

If the chimneys had filters on to protect the atmosphere could this work Im sure I read somewhere, its done in Germany

[Shaggy]

I wonder who's palm got greased with a fat wad of notes to allow this to pass? You only have to read the news to know that peoples health is at risk due to all the toxic emissions that cannot be burned off because the system doesn't produce enough heat to do so.

[dozy]

IT all goes back to Westminsters inability to come up with a proper recycling and waste strategy in 2010 . The Tories want the private sector to built and run the system with huge amounts of public money but they ran into the EU regulations that would prohibit that PFI cash cow. With Brexit the doors are open and the handcuffs are off. So beware as they may just land one of the waste burners near you .
In the passed the government and local council worked for you and the community's benefit now it's the other way round .

[Goodfellers]

Dozy, how do you manage to turn every post into anti Westminster propoganda?

I'm fairly sure this policy is devolved to the SNP led Scottish government.

https://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environm.../wastestrategy

[Southern-Gal]

Do your own incinerating and produce heat for your home at the same time. Get a multitude burner in your home and burn what you can. Is that a worse plan than an incinerator ran by the council? At least that way the heat that is produced is used and so saves using another fuel.

[Goodfellers]

I think if it was a very small scale incinerator to dispose of local waste, most folk would be ok, but, as with landfill, I expect we will be burning much more than just 'our' waste. I would be great if this incinerator took farm waste too, save all the evening bonfires of plastic and whatever else. All that heat wasted. If it was used to produce electricity at least all that heat would be put to good use. Would also need to be free service to farmers to encourage then to use it.

[GSD]

For anyone really interested in the facts about modern incineration, rather than just hypothesizing I would suggest visiting websites about the Energy from Heat installation on the Isle of Man. I remember this being built in 2001 - 2003 when I was working on the island so it is a relatively modern installation. All the facts figures reasoning's, emissions (none) etc are available & it was sized for a small relatively stable population - so could be looked at as a good working control model for the Highlands. I remember that when it came on line in 2004 it had plenty of surplus capability & there was a lot of talk about bringing waste in to make it viable (do not know if this ever happened). I see that in 2010 there was public consultation about waste disposal on the Island as it looked like the plant would be at maximum capacity by 2014 - 2015 (60000 tonnes per annum.
Population on I.O.M at the design stage was 75000 (approx) population now around 90500, so even with recycling it would appear that the Caithness plant to deal with burnable waste just from the Highlands (population around 280000 at present) would have to be near the maximum build likely to be approved of around 300000 tonnes to make it viable for the next twenty or so years.

Link to I.O.M site for anyone interested

http://www.iomguide.com/right-photos.php?2089

[Fulmar]

Thank you, that's interesting.

[Green_not_greed]

Do you know where in Caithness it is proposed to be built ?