Norwich has a problem with rubbish. Namely its government. Though I would like to extend my congratulations to the people of Norwich for successfully defeating plans to build a multi-million pound waste incinerator billed as "an alternative solution to the city's growing waste problem".But that "growing waste problem" is not a naturally occurring problem. It is one created by our government in Brussels under the European Waste Framework Directive...
The county council, which was pursuing a waste plant because of the threat of fines triggered by the amount of rubbish going to landfill has said it will avoid penalties by focusing on smaller scale schemes with the council working more closely with district authorities.
Yep, those landfill taxes are the killer. In fact they are the only thing that makes expensive alternatives viable and it seems that even then it's not an attractive prospect in this economic climate.
I suppose this would be a good time to point out that LPUK does not support membership of the EU or market distorting taxes. We also recognise that landfill has an important role to play in our energy mix (see picture). We are not bound by Luddite superstitions.
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You support landfill and yet another policy statement on a blog that claims to not be directly the LPUK.
You have no idea what you area talking about and this site is becoming farcical.
This is a political party, treat it as such. Every single time you open your mouth on here, god knows how many times a day, you are effectively making statement son behalf of the party.
Thanks Pete; I've been looking for the market indications of an idea I've been postulating in my head regarding the use of landfills for energy.
Will be interesting to look at the figures from prometheus further...
Kevin, LPUK would not seek to dictate energy policy. If the free market can make landfill gas work then we would neither encourage or discourage it what with us being free market folks and such. Didn't say we supported it. Only that we recogise new technologies. Can't see why a libertarian would not.
Oh I see. Like that.
Problem is this: the massive, vast distruction of property. Have you ever been to a landfill?
Obviously not.
It's not a case of 'controlling' the markets, it is simply a case of making sure that methods that are desctructive are not used.
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