Having said I was concerned that the latest MVV consultation was a sham, and that some local campaigners risked being taken in by it, we now sadly have the confirmation this is the case.
As part of the incinerator proposal, the developer has to pay a financial contribution called section 106 money for local infrastructure. £400,000 of Section 106 money, in two instalments of £200,000 each, will be given to the Lib Dem/Labour-run Cambridgeshire County Council. The Liberal Dem / Labour council want to spend this on cycle paths, and not even cycle paths in Wisbech.
Perhaps this is why the Lib Dem and Labour Council candidates for election to the county council in May won’t sign my boycott to refuse to send waste to the incinerator? It is also notable that the Lib Dem leader of the county council has been silent on this money.
We should work to undermine the business case for the incinerator by starving it of waste from local authorities, by getting councils to commit to boycott it. Incineration is the dirtiest way to produce energy. There is sufficient capacity already nationally. So this incinerator is not needed.
Instead of being played for fools by the developer, council candidates standing this May should come off the fence and make clear they will have nothing to do with the consultation and pledge not to vote to use the incinerator.
I have published the names of those who have signed and those who have refused so that voters across Cambridgeshire have this information at stevebarclay.net/campaigns/stop-wisbech-incinerator
