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From Ends Waste & Bioenergy in January 2015:

Plans to build the UK’s largest waste management complex [image at top] and energy-from-waste plant have come to an end, it has emerged. Lifetime Recycling Village Ltd, which had planned to build the £640m plant 12 kilometres south of Glasgow, was officially wound up in February, according to government records.

Proposal to build the facility were first unveiled in 2010 by three waste and construction entrepreneurs. Its three gasification lines would have processed a total of 900,000 tonnes of waste per year – over 100,000t more than London’s Riverside, the UK’s largest plant.

The development would have handled 1.5 million tonnes of waste per year in all, separating out some 600,000t of recyclates. The remainder, mostly biomass, would have been processed into fuel.The site would have generated 81MWe (gross) but its high electricity demand would have left only around 56MWe for export to the grid. Heat would have been used on-site for fuel drying and waste separation.

https://www.endswasteandbioenergy.com/article/1349530/uks-largest-efw-project-collapses

A march and rally took place in Newton Mearns in September 2011, involving local residents, community groups, environmental campaigners, and politicians including MP Jim Murphy and MSP Ken Macintosh. Opposition focused on the plant’s scale, traffic, emissions, green-belt location, and inconsistency with waste-reduction policy. A Scottish Parliament members’ debate in February 2011 also expressed concern. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14765774

In the context of the the massive incinerator, called the South Clyde Energy Centre, positioned deliberately directly upwind and a short distance from Glasgow’s biggest hospital, Anonymous writes:

I was involved in the campaign against the Loganswell incinerator in the early 2010s, not least because several schools were in the path of the prevailing winds. I do not have my data from that time to hand but the main research tactic that I remember was to distinguish between domestic/municipal waste incineration and industrial waste incineration with (again from memory) clear evidence of harm to humans in the path of an industrial waste incinerator, but more nuanced outcomes from purely household/municipal waste incineration. And quoting carefully and selectively thereafter. I would defer to Joe Murray (and his excellent recent contributions) regarding the reality of the true combustion mix and simply point out this recent Australian systematic review of waste incineration: 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S132602002300732X which concluded:

“A range of adverse health effects were identified, including significant associations with some neoplasia, congenital anomalies, infant death and miscarriage, but not for other diseases.”

I too, am reminded, of the ReChem incinerator near Bonnybridge, in the early 1980s, associated with cattle deaths and human birth defects. They simply moved to Wales.

One law for Newton Mearns but another for Govan?

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