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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
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in recognition of our quality of service rubbish that cannot be recycled to the success of the recent charge
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• 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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