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Tag Archives: Viridor
Incinerator protestors accuse Viridor of lies over toxic pollution
With just days to go before the Environment Agency closes its latest consultation over whether to allow Viridor to increase their profits by upping the amount of toxic pollution that they pump into the atmosphere of south London, a large … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Peter Underwood, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Dave Tchil, Elliot Colburn MP, Environment Agency, Jim Duffy, Kingston, Merton, Peter Underwood, Sutton, Verity Thompson, Viridor
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Infant death rates were up by 233% after incinerator fired up
Official figures from the ONS for the year after Viridor began its operations at Beddington showed a sharp increase in infant deaths in Selhurst, Broad Green and Waddon wards. STEVEN DOWNES reports Infant mortality rates in one part of Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Planning, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment Agency, Jim Duffy, Kingston Council, KKR, Liberal Democrats, Merton Council, Michael Ryan, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Beddington’s ‘dumping ground’ now facing its own Suez crisis
A planning application from a multi-billion French-based waste company to develop a “green” gas-generating plant on Beddington Lane has encountered “vehement opposition” from at least one Sutton councillor, who says that his residents’ corner of south London is being turned … Continue reading
Incinerator operators Viridor cash-in on pollution tax loophole
Allowing climate-damaging emissions from incinerators to go untaxed is ‘shameful’ according to environmental campaigner Companies running waste incinerators, including Viridor, the operators of the polluting Beddington Lane incinerator, dodged more than £500million of pollution charges for burning plastic last year … Continue reading
It’s time to re-set our approach to Beddington’s nature reserve
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The threat of enforcement action against incinerator operators Viridor, and the waste management company, Valencia that now runs the former landfill site at Beddington, is too little and much too late, says conservationist PETER ALFREY Together with other … Continue reading
After a decade of delay, Sutton condemns Viridor. Sort of
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on a planning authority’s enforcement action coming far too late to save what was supposed to be south London’s biggest nature reserve, where endangered species have been allowed to become extinct Sutton Council, after more … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve, Environment Agency, Hackbridge and Beddington Corner Neighbourhood Development Group, Sutton, Sutton Council, Thames Water, Valencia Waste Management, Viridor
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Viridor’s charge sheet: incinerator operator’s eco-vandalism
This is the damning litany of charges now facing Valencia, the shell company established by Viridor to take the rap for more than a decade of failures to deliver on the relatively modest terms agreed in return for their original … Continue reading
Viridor turns polluting Beddington incinerator into a sick joke
Incinerator operators Viridor have failed to instal any metal detectors to locate large batteries and other devices which are believed to have caused explosions inside the furnace at the Beddington Lane plant, leading to many of the 40 polluting breaches … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Hackbridge, Hackbridge and Beddington Corner Neighbourhood Development Group, Kingston, Merton, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Viridor
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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
Bailey holds urgent talks seeking Viridor bail-out for SDEN
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on the backroom deals that have been going on to try to salvage Sutton Council’s struggling heat network business Helen Bailey, the chief exec at Liberal Democrat-controlled Sutton, has been holding emergency talks with incinerator … Continue reading
Posted in Bobby Dean, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Helen Bailey, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Refuse collection, Ruth Dombey, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Helen Bailey, Kingston, KKR, Merton, Ruth Dombey, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Viridor
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Viridor incinerator breaks its toxic VOC permit for 40th time
MARK GALE reports on how the Environment Agency’s ‘strict limits’ on polluting emissions are not so strict after all The latest emission data for the polluting incinerator on Beddington Lane has just been released and yet again, operators Viridor have … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Health, Kingston, Merton, Old Palace, Sutton Council, Wandle Park, Waste incinerator
Tagged #MuckyMerton, Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Kingston Council, Mark Gale, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Viridor
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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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Beddington’s ‘blue space’ could boost NHS mental health care
A conservation activist who spent more than a decade fighting for improved recognition and investment in the Beddington Farmlands nature reserve has greeted a report from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust that “prescribes” nature for improved mental health as “a … Continue reading
Dombey’s dodgy LibDems’ handbrake turn over dirty diesel
Viridor and Ruth Dombey’s dodgy Liberal Democrats are so worried about the latest attempts to increase the volume of rubbish burned at the Beddington Lane incinerator, and the use of vast amounts of dirty diesel to do so, that they … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Helen Bailey, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Dave Tchiligirian, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, Sheldon Vestey, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network, Tory, Viridor
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Councillor says big-money deals for medical and radioactive waste are at centre of Viridor’s diesel tank planning application
A Sutton councillor claims that Viridor wants to begin burning medical and radioactive waste at its Beddington Lane incinerator, but that it has withheld these lucrative business plans from its latest application to build a large fuel tank on the … Continue reading
Off-target: Town Hall chiefs’ concern over net zero dates
More than half of the country’s local council leaders fear that their areas will fail to meet their own net zero targets, according to a survey published over the weekend. The survey was conducted on behalf of renewable energy supplier … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Climate Crisis, Croydon Climate Commission, E.ON, Kingston Council, Local Government Chronicle, Merton Council, Net zero, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Sutton planners add fuel to incinerator fires with dirty diesel
Think those plumes of smoke coming out of the polluting Viridor incinerator at Beddington Lane are just from the burning of hundreds of thousands of tons of rubbish? Think again. It’s not entirely the case. Some of the pollution comes … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, London-wide issues, Merton, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Nick Mattey, Planning, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, 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
Mayor will have little say over borough’s rubbish contractors
CROYDON COMMENTARY: It is one of the biggest and most important services provided by any local council. But the manner in which the borough has outsourced the management of bin collections, street cleaning and waste disposal and recycling has become … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, idVerde, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Peter Underwood, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Val Shawcross, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #Binmageddon, #MuckyMerton, #SuttonBinShame, 'Royal' Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor
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Half of Sutton LibDem councillors quitting at May’s elections
Defending the indefensible, whether it is the dodgy deals over the council’s SDEN heat network, the appalling treatment of families with SEND children, or some of the ruling group’s more under-hand conduct, has taken its toll, writes our Civic Offices … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Catherine Gray, Charlie Mansell, Elliot Colburn, Jayne McCoy, Jenny Batt, Neil Garratt, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Bobby Dean, Conservative, Council Tax, Jenny Batt, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Luke Taylor, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, SEND, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Tom Foster, Tory, Viridor
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Sutton’s LibDems in meltdown as ‘betrayed’ deputy quits
A councillor called ‘Moral’ has taken a principled stance against her erstwhile party colleagues. EXCLUSIVE by CARL SHILTON, investigations editor Ruth Dombey’s deputy mayor on Sutton’s Liberal Democrat-controlled council is quitting at the local elections next month because she has … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Elliot Colburn, Environment, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Annie Moral, Beddington Lane incinerator, Elliot Colburn MP, House of Commons, Ruth Dombey, St Helier, St Helier Hospital, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Viridor, Westminster Hall
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#Binmageddon: Under-performing Veolia hit with warnings
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on some long-overdue action being taken with the rubbish contractors who are supposed to be responsible for the state of the borough’s streets One day after “Mucky Merton”™ issued a Service Improvement Notice to … Continue reading
