Despite nearly 1,000 breaches of its existing permit in a 15-month period, Viridor has had its licence extension for the Beddington incinerator granted, to the dismay of local councillors and environmentalists.
By STEVEN DOWNES
Toxic: the Viridor incinerator at Beddington, pumping pollution into our air since 2019
The Environment Agency, already known as the most useless of toothless watchdogs for its failures to police the water companies, has today managed to make that reputation worse still by granting toxic polluters Viridor their request to burn more rubbish at the Beddington incinerator.
The EA’s decision consigns generations of south Londoners to health problems caused by breathing polluted, even acidic, air from the incinerator’s emissions.
In a statement, the EA confirmed that Viridor’s licence application – submitted in 2022 – has been approved to increase “the processing capacity of the energy recovery facility to 382,286 tonnes per annum, an increase of 34,864 tonnes”. Continue reading
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