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BBC News
25-06-2025
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Port Clarence radioactive waste proposal consultation opens
People on Teesside are being asked to give their views on a proposal to dispose of radioactive waste at a landfill site.A revised Environmental Safety Case (ESC) for the spot at Port Clarence has been submitted by Augean North firm previously applied for permission to dispose of low-level radioactive waste at its facility off Huntsman Drive in August effort was strongly criticised by politicians who said Teesside was not the UK's "dumping ground". The public consultation will close on 4 August. Some 2,300 people took part in a four-month consultation in 2019 with only 13 coming out in support, according to the Local Democracy Reporting site has two existing permitted landfills - one for hazardous waste and one for non-hazardous environmental permit application seeks to allow low-level radioactive waste disposal in Environment Agency (EA) asked the company for more information in September 2020 and it has now submitted the revised ESC in response. Monitoring promise Gary Wallace, area environment manager for EA, said it was important the community had the opportunity to review the revised environmental safety case, "which has changed significantly since the original public consultation"."We welcome people's comments on the new information received and relevant environmental factors people feel are important," he said."Our technical assessment is ongoing and once we have reviewed the documents and information from the consultation we will make a draft decision on the application."The ESC states the waste will pose "a relatively low risk to people and the environment".It adds that when the landfills are full and site restoration has been completed, the design of the facility would minimise contact between infiltrating water and the it adds "it is recognised that over long timescales and the natural evolution of the estuary, small quantities of radioactivity may migrate to the environment".It argues they will "remain below the relevant dose and risk guidance levels that have been defined for England and Wales by the Environment Agency".Augean says it will undertake environmental monitoring of the site and take samples regularly in an agreed programme with published can take part in the consultation on the EA's website. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
10-05-2025
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Environment Agency 'minded to accept' Teesside incinerator plans
The Environment Agency (EA) has said it is "minded to" to accept proposals for a controversial waste have previously claimed the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TVERF), which would be built at Teesworks in Grangetown, Redcar, would be "unfair and dangerous".Seven local authorities across north-east England would use the facility, burning up to 450,000 tonnes of waste per year, to generate energy, according to EA has now launched a second consultation over the plans. Developer Viridor declined to comment. The body held its first consultation over whether or not to grant an environmental permit to the incinerator late last said it was now launching a second consultation because it could not "find any reason to refuse" the application, but was "yet to make a final decision".EA official Gary Wallace said the organisation was keen to hear people's views on the incinerator and that it would make its final decision following the consultation. The incinerator would take waste from homes in Newcastle, Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, as well as Stockton and Redcar and Cleveland council City Council's director of operations and regulatory services previously said there were no "affordable alternative" to the Foster, from Stop Incineration North East, said the group planned to lodge more objections with the EA over the group protested the plans last month, arguing that people's waste should be recycled rather than partners from TVERF previously said facilities like the planned Energy from Waste (EfW) incinerator were a "reliable and safe technology" which had been subject to "intense regulatory and academic scrutiny over decades of operation"."The project represents the safest, most reliable and most sustainable way to manage our region's residual waste," they local authorities involved in the scheme have been approached for comment. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
