Caroline Righton, Prospective Conservative MP for St Austell and Newquay has put waste company Sita on notice that she will pursue every avenue to ensure their appeal against the refusal of planning permission for a mass burn incinerator will not be successful and that a Plan B option is allowed to proceed.  

“I worked with the local community of St Dennis and indeed people across Cornwall to help make the case why their proposal was the wrong technology in the wrong location.  We won the battle that day – now we have to win the war.

“The appeal Sita should be considering is that made loud and clear by myself and the people of Cornwall for a Plan B option to manage our waste that wouldn’t blight a community and destroy for ever Cornwall’s chance of being the UK’s Green Peninsula.

“How much better would it be if SITA and the new council could sit down and consider the many new and more acceptable models for managing waste that are on offer and happening elsewhere.

“I am astonished they are appealing the decision after the opposition they have witnessed. We all accept we need to find a solution and I can’t believe they don’t think that too after all they have heard and what they must know is happening elsewhere in the world.  I wonder what on earth can be in the original contract that makes them believe they have a chance of success.

“At last however, the new councillors are being shown the clauses the former Lib Dem administration would not let the public see, despite frequent requests.  I hope I am wrong suspecting that it gives Sita such a winning hand that they feel they have no option but to pursue what the same Lib Dem council requested they deliver – a mass burn incinerator  outside St Dennis.

If this is true, I and local people will not hesitate to pursue a judicial review into the negligence and incompetence that has brought us to this sorry point and to ensure that original contract is ripped up, those who instigated it brought to account and common sense and proper consideration finally made of the people’s and the planet’s needs.

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Contact: Caroline Righton 07778917297
 

2nd September 2009