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Moving the incinerator has simply moved the fumes into town
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From Gerard Baudains.
I WAS driving into town on Friday when I noticed considerable smoke from the JEC chimney. This puzzled me until I realised it was similar to Bellozanne’s output – clearly caused by the new incinerator.
One really must congratulate those far-sighted politicians who pushed through the building of this piece of antiquated technology. Moving waste disposal from Bellozanne was a masterstroke. Instead of the fumes going over the relatively sparsely populated centre of the Island, the exhaust now goes over much of town and the more heavily populated parts of St Saviour. Sheer genius.
Of course, the incinerator had to be moved from Bellozanne because of a thing called the Bellozanne Covenant. That meant that the residents of St Helier could never be charged for waste disposal, meaning an inequity would arise when the rubbish tax is introduced.
The idea that it was to spare the residents close to Bellozanne was a red herring. After all, how many home owners bought their property before the ‘destructor’ was built? Not many, I suspect, meaning those who came after did so in the full knowledge that they would be living next to it.
Another related matter I’ve never been able to fathom is why we paid over £100 million for this plant, when a substantial worldwide firm with considerable experience of waste plant construction was prepared to build it for £66 million (I have a copy of the quote).
And why was that firm advised by Transport and Technical Services not to bother to tender (as admitted in TTS’s report)?
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