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Scottish Parliament….11th June 2009

Scottish Parliament….11th June 2009 “..and believes that, given the good progress being made so far in recycling, there should be no necessity for any large-scale waste-to-energy plants to be built in Scotland and that reuse, reducing waste creation and recycling are the best way forward.”

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Scottish Parliament….11th June 2009

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  1. Scottish Parliament….11th June 2009 “..and believes that, given the good progress being made so far in recycling, there should be no necessity for any large-scale waste-to-energy plants to be built in Scotland and that reuse, reducing waste creation and recycling are the best way forward.” Vote;- For 65, Against 54

  2. John Grant, Principal Environmental Health Officer “Planning consent for this development should not be recommended for approval unless a categoric assurance can be given that public health will not, in any way, be compromised by exposure to emissions from the incineration process.” And further “that the ‘need’ or ‘demand’ for a waste incinerator in the Peterhead area has yet to be demonstrated.”

  3. Environmental Agency 2006 figures for the Nottingham Incinerator - Notifiable releases

  4. SEPA/HPS Oct 2009 review of health effects on population living near Incineration. “Some of the more recently published studies discussed in this report have provided limited additional evidence of a possible association between some incinerator emissions, particularly dioxins, and some forms of cancer”.

  5. The DERL incinerator at Baldovie in Dundee here is a list of its breaches since 2006;- Jan 06 - arsenic, antimony, lead, copper, cobalt, manganese etc June 06 - dioxins, PM Oct 06 - Heavy metals, dioxins March 07 - arsenic, lead, cobalt, dioxins etc Sept 07 - odours Nov 07 - arsenic, lead, cobalt, dioxins etc March 08 - heavy metals incl arsenic, antimony, lead, dioxins June 09 - dioxins again July 09 - carbon monoxide

  6. Vital Sparks Nursery - to scale

  7. Professor Howard says that “successive studies have concluded that there is no level of fine particle pollution below which no deaths occur - they found that even air pollution levels that were well within legal limits are killing people especially older people and those with chronic heart and lung ailments”

  8. USA Environmental Protection Agency state the following list of health effects that elevated particulate concentrations have been associated with;-

  9. REJECTED by Councillors Aberdeen City 2003 Dunbar 2009 Invergordon 2009 and more

  10. REJECTED by Councillors Aberdeen City 2003 Dunbar 2009 Invergordon 2009 and more

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