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Tag Archives: Environment Agency
Environment Agency makes incinerator ‘site of high interest’
The Environment Agency has agreed to a request from UKWIN – United Kingdom Without Incineration Network – to declare the Beddington incinerator as a “Site of High Public Interest”. As a result, the EA has agreed to run a second … Continue reading
Rivers and environment are at peril from nation’s lawmakers
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Public outrage and an MP’s letter to the water companies won’t keep our waterways clean, argues IAN KIERANS, who says that the weak regulatory system exists to protect big business and the status quo Thames Water dumps effluent … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Environment Agency, River Wandle, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Thames Water
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Environment Agency issues flood warning for River Wandle
No sooner has the amber heatwave warning in south London faded away in some light rain than the Environment Agency has put the area on alert for flash flooding. With heavy rain forecast to hit the capital today and tomorrow, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Lambeth Council, Merton, Sutton Council, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Environment Agency, Kingston, Lambeth, Merton, Norbury Brook, Richmond, River Wandle, Sutton, Wandle, Wandle Park
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Viridor incinerator fined for multiple pollution permit breaches
After at least 34 permit breaches in three years, the south London councils’ partnership is taking action against their contractor – though nothing is being done about the serious ‘acidic air’ incident in May Viridor is to be fined for … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Health, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment Agency, Kingston Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tory, Viridor
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Incinerator goes 7 times over level for acidic hydrogen chloride
Viridor, the operators of the Beddington Lane incinerator, have admitted that they have been polluting the south London air with hydrogen chloride, a chemical normally used in the production of potentially deadly hydrochloric acid. Data released by Viridor today shows … Continue reading
Police and agencies stage clampdown on scrap merchants
Waste sites in Croydon and across south London and into Kent got a surprise early knock on the door from Environment Agency officers working with the British Transport Police, Kent Police, the Joint Unit for Waste Crime and Openreach, all … Continue reading
Posted in Crime
Tagged British Transport Police, catalytic converter, Environment Agency
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Calls for Beddington incinerator to be shut down over CO2
Viridor’s figures show that their south London plant is pumping out three times as much CO2 as other, similar facilities. By PAUL LUSHION, environment correspondent The Viridor incinerator at Beddington Lane, operated on behalf of Croydon and three other south … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Peter Underwood, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Environment Agency, Kingston Council, London, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Viridor going for the burn: will councillors stand up to them?
The government watchdog, the Environment Agency, is actively encouraging incinerator operators to pollute more and so bank more cash, at the expense of south London residents’ health. By our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT Any chance that Croydon or Sutton might … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Muhammad Ali, Nick Mattey, Nina Degrads, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Environment Agency, Kingston Council, Merton Council, Muhammad Ali, Nick Mattey, Nina Degrads, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Kenley, Coulsdon, Purley and South Croydon put on flood alert
The Environment Agency has issued a flood alert for south-east London, including Coulsdon, Kenley, Purley and South Croydon. It is six years since the major flooding in Kenley and Purley, when emergency services had to work around the clock to … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon
Tagged Coulsdon, Environment Agency, flooding, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon
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Viridor incinerator under investigation by Environment Agency
The Environment Agency has confirmed it is investigating last month’s fire at the Viridor incinerator site at Beddington Lane, following complaints from local air quality campaigners, as first reported by Inside Croydon. But such scrutiny has not stopped Viridor’s lies and … Continue reading
Call for Viridor prosecution over health risks from toxic fire
The Environment Agency has been asked to consider bringing a prosecution of Viridor over the fire at their incinerator on Beddington Lane last month, as there is mounting evidence to suggest that toxic fumes were released into the atmosphere during … Continue reading
Video: How LibDem changed his “mind” on incinerator
Our thanks to Dave Pettener, of the Stop the Incinerator Campaign, for his latest piece of digital craftwork. Taking the audio feed from the Sutton Council planning meeting in the summer when key councillors went back on their previous positions … Continue reading
Flawed inspection regime highlights health risks of incinerators
Four years ago, Simon Hoar, a cabinet member in the Conservative group that controls the Town Hall, was distributing leaflets in Waddon ward offering a solemn promise that he and his colleagues, if re-elected to the council, would stop the … Continue reading
Incinerator campaigners to take battle to judicial review
Environment campaigners in south London want to use a judicial review to challenge the decision to allow Viridor and Sutton Council to build a waste incinerator on Metropolitan Open Land at Beddington Lane. The decision was announced on Wednesday by … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Business, Clare Hilley, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Simon Hoar, Sutton Council, Tony Harris, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon, Environment Agency, Incineration, Labour, London, Metropolitan Open Land, Recycling, Viridor
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Environment Agency has failed London on incinerator permit
With a decision still awaited from the Mayor of London on Viridor’s plans to build a waste-burning incinerator at Beddington Lane, MICHAEL RYAN suggests that the scheme relies on a lack of due diligence by government agencies over the real … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Croydon Greens, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Environment Agency, Health Protection Agency, Infant mortality, London, Office for National Statistics, SELCHP, Stroud News & Journal, Viridor
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Greens call for Croydon residents to act now on incinerator
The local Green party is calling on Croydon and Sutton residents to ensure that they take part in the consultation process for the Beddington Lane incinerator, with the deadline for objections to be submitted next Tuesday, September 18.
You’re dung for! Coulsdon and Waddon on sludge lorry route
There will be only five more years of stink for north Croydon residents and Purley Way shoppers to suffer when the malodorous winds blow from Beddington sewage farm. That’s the hope that Thames Water officials imparted to two public meetings … Continue reading
