Great news! Covanta have recognised the writing on the wall for high-cost mass-burn mega-incinerators that waste most or all of the heat.
It’s also a blow to the Welsh government’s pro-incineration policy, for they invited Covanta to Wales. Ieuan Wyn Jones (as Deputy First Minister) visited Covanta in the USA and his officials set up contacts for Covanta and helped with plans for rail transhipment of waste from all over Wales (revealed by FoI disclosures) .
For Prosiect Gwyrdd, who chose four incinerator projects for S-E Wales municipal waste, Covanta’s retreat means two down, two to go. Let’s see Newport turn down Veolia’s plan for Newport/Llanwern – this would leave PG’s plan to shortlist two incinerators in ruins.
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