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                                                                   Renewable energy centre planned for
                                                                   South Marston

                                                                    Plans have been submitted for a   recruit locally as far as possible.
                                                                    Renewable Energy Centre to be   It’s also important to recognise
                                                                    built on the Keypoint site in South   that the project brings far wider
                                                                    Marston.                   supply chain benefits too, securing
                                 Town Office                         The proposal comes from   jobs in the services and operational
                     1 Groundwell Road, Swindon SN1 2LT             renewable energy firm Rolton   maintenance sectors.”
                              Tel: 01793 422422                     Kilbride and involves building   After a meeting in early April local
                                                                    an incinerator that will recover   residents formed a campaign to
                               Chapel of Rest
                 92 Ermin Street, Stratton St Margaret SN3 4NN      energy from residual waste using a   oppose the development. Over 150
                                                                                               attended the SKIP, Stop Keypoint
                                                                    process the developers are calling
                              Tel: 01793 832072                     ‘gasification’.            Incinerator Project, second public
                  Our family service caring for you                 for Rolton Kilbride said: “The   meeting at Grange Leisure Centre.
                                                                     Ian Crummack, spokesperson
                                                                                                The campaign’s position is
                 A truly personal and compassionate service         technology is safe and clean, and   that the only long-term solution
               available 24 hours a day, every day of the year      has been used successfully in   to waste is to focus on ways
                                                                    many countries, including Japan
                                                                                               of reducing packaging and
                                                                    and Scandinavia. It converts   encouraging recycling. They point
                       Included in The Good Funeral Guide
                      in recognition of our quality of service      rubbish that cannot be recycled   to the success of the recent charge
                                                                    into renewable energy in the form   placed on plastic bags which has
               • Professionally                                     of heat and up to 14.5MW of   drastically reduced waste.
                  qualified                                         electricity.                SKIP group chair Robert Ayres
                                                                     “The site is on an existing   said: “The campaign is moving
               • Pre-paid funeral                                   industrial area, and if built, the   up a gear. The developers call
                  plans available                                   plant must comply with stringent   this a gasification plant. But it
                                                                    environmental regulations and   will burn waste and produce
               • Home visits                                        emission limits, be equipped with   ash. That’s incineration in plain
                  available                                         continuous monitoring systems and   English. And it’s incineration as
                                                                    will be controlled by permit issued   far as planning law is concerned.
               • Parking available      John Pearce, centre, Tracy & David  by the Environment Agency.    There is no process which is going
                                        ‘Here for you when needed most’
                                                                     “Providing around 20 full time   to completely clean the exhaust
                                                                    jobs and an additional 40 jobs in   gases.”
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