On Monday, the senior civil servant at Transport and Technical Services told a scrutiny panel that a plan by Deputy Rob Duhamel to use a Japanese company to turn the Island’s toxic asbestos waste into a glass-like substance – unveiled by the minister in Saturday’s JEP – almost scuppered a deal already being negotiated.
TTS chief officer John Rogers told the Environment Scrutiny panel that he had spent most of his weekend placating a firm in America, after one of its staff read about Deputy Duhamel’s plan online.
TTS and the firm in Washington State had been in ‘discreet’ discussions about how the latter could help Jersey deal with its asbestos legacy, which is currently stored in rusting containers at La Collette.
