Over 300 people attended today’s public meeting explaining how people can submit objections to Viridor’s incinerator application at New England Quarry. This was the best turn out yet for a public meeting on this subject and a sure sign that the community is mobilised to stop the incinerator.
Gary Streeter MP, my Tory opponent, opened the meeting and I talked through the campaign to date. Frankie Dolan from ecoivy.org spoke about her passion behind opposing incineration before we took questions from residents about how to object. I was pleased to be able to talk through the reasons why to oppose the incinerator and how to do so.
CAVIL is a cross-party effort and I was pleased to be able to join Gary Streeter on the platform. My Lib Dem counterpart wasn’t there today – the third meeting she has missed in a row on this topic – but I’m pleased that there were Lib Dems in the audience. Hugh Williams, the UKIP candidate for SW Devon, was also there helping ask people for donations for the CAVIL campaign. We’ve got a really active group opposing Viridor’s application now and the company should be in no doubt that this community will do everything it can to oppose their plans for an incinerator and landfill on our doorstep.
I was pleased that about 10% of the room had already sent in their objections and I’m hopeful that the rest (bar one incinerator supporter) will be sending their own objections in shortly. We have until 19 April to get our objections to Devon County Council.
To find out how to object click here.
The incinerator campaign started out as me and one resident leafleting Ivybridge about the incinerator and only 6 months on it is a community campaign properly taking the fight to Viridor. This is a very powerful statement of how communities can and are fighting back – and one I’m proud to be involved in.
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