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18/10/19 Derby & South Derbyshire Friends of the Earth are pleased to announce that the Derby/Derbyshire high-carbon, polluting plastics/biomass/resources incineration plant is now closed/mothballed. However, Derby city and Derbyshire county council are looking for other ‘partners’ to start it up again. For people in Sinfin. Derby to complain about the terrible woodsmoke pollution being emitted from the OGEN wood-torrefaction/biochar greenwash plant on Victory Rd behind Sainsburys, Osmaston Rd, go to https://www.derby.gov.uk/environmental-health-licensing-trading-standards/environmental-health/smokefree/how-can-i-complain-about-smoking-in-a-smokefree-area/ . Sinfin already has 20 stacks (chimneys basically) from the Rools-Royce aeroengine manufacturing facility/testbed (pumping out NO2/CO2 24/7) we fully expect others to ignore the current climate pollution emergency & start up the 23d stack again. Watch this space

Derbyshire incinerator, by Shanks/Resource Recovery Solutions/Renewi/MacQuarie/Green Investment Group/Foresight Group/Energos/Interserve, nr Sainsburys/B&Q,Sinfin, Derby, & worldwide. To emit 4.3 MILLION tonnes of CO2. Being touted worldwide as low-carbon! Always in deprived & polluted areas. (+ here a site for the rare common lizard) Will cause Deaths  Brought Forward in seriously ill, worsen 2 Air Quality Management Areas 4 NO2, emit 4.3 MILLION tonnes CO2 over 20 yr lifespan & waste 360,000 litres of diesel to aid the ‘burn’. 1 of 1000s of dioxin,microplastics, nanoparticles spewers, planned for UK/world. Will also waste water in the quench and wastewater processes. (20 Olympic swimming-pools worth, daily) Cheaper reduction, reuse & recycling is being dismantled to ‘feed’ incineration contract tonnages, see contracts page) World soils are being wrecked because of artificial fertiliser overuse, yet compostable resources are being destroyed. Compost aids carbon sequestration, adds nutrients, alleviates floodrisk and stops run-off. Derby City Council has agreed that air quality will be worsened in an AQMA for nitrogen dioxide, because of the stack emissions and associated traffic. They stated in the LTP process, that the life expectancy of Derby people – a year less than the national average – would not improve, if air quality did not improve. 

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Derby Friends of the Burning Earth

Derby & South Derbyshire Friends of the Earth were set up 25 years ago and have campaigned on many issues including the current, long-running, Derbyshire plastics/biomass incinerator scandal. After a long fight of nearly 20 years, the burner has been built but has been closed for the last 3 years, due to gross air pollution and general nuisance to Derby people. Derby City Council has acknowledged that the incinerator and associated traffic are worsening the immediate Air Quality Management Area, (AQMA) for nitrogen dioxide. The AQMA for particulates was removed after QDF shut, but now needs reinstating, as a new woodwaste burning incinerator has also been built, in this highly industrial/residential area. Sinfin has the highest rates of lung cancer, in Derby. Life expectancy is also a full year less than the national average. Derby children suffer the highest rates of asthma and respiratory problems. Ella Kissi-Debrah, 9 yrs old, died from a severe asthma attack, caused by abysmal air quality in London, 3 yrs ago. More on - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/07/in-the-days-around-e... Derby is one of the 6 UK Government Clean Air Zone cities, in which air quality is so bad that Air Quality Standards for nitrogen dioxide are regularly breached. In Derby that's the inner ring & outer ring road. The incineration company has admitted the Derby/Derbyshire Renewi incineration plant chimney and associated traffic, will also worsen air quality. STOP PRESS We have received email confirmation from OFGEM that Renewable Obligation Certificates for the Derby/Derbyshire incineration plant, have NOT been secured, contrary to their claims

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