York Residents Against Incineration

Just a quick one- Friends of the Earth are running an online petition calling on Caroline Spelman (Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) to divert food waste into animal feed and compost, instead of incineration or landfill. 16 million tonnes of food is wasted each year, with much of it ending […]

Minister for the Environment, Caroline Spelman, has told Norfolk Council that she will withhold £169 million funding for their incinerator project. Norfolk Council had been warned in June that they need to demonstrate a “broad local consensus” for the project, which has attracted huge opposition locally. On Friday it was announced that the Government was […]

The planning application is validated and under consideration. Now is the time to lodge your objections and call for a public enquiry. The reference for the application is NY/2011/0328/ENV – it is important that you quote this. The application can be viewed on North Yorkshire County Council’s Planning Portal – you can object here online […]