Isramart : Burner carbon figure ‘more than double’

Isramart news:
TOTAL emissions from the proposed incinerator will be about two-and-a-half times more than figures given during last month’s States debate, climate change campaigner Nick Day (pictured) claims.

Chief Minister Lyndon Trott answered questions about the level of carbon emissions expected from the planned Suez facility.

Figures supplied to him by Public Services said the waste plant would produce about 16,000 tonnes of CO2 at maximum capacity.

He added that there were carbon benefits to take into consideration and that if they were added up, there would be a year one ‘net carbon saving of 6,424 tonnes of CO2’.

Public Services confirmed it used guidelines set by the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate the figures, but Professor Day disputed the results.

* ‘Viable alternative’ Green Homes Guernsey has intensified its campaign ahead of the waste debate.
The company is trying to gain support for a pyrolysis, or gasification, plant as a better solution than the £93.5m. Suez incinerator.
GHG said its plant would use proven technology and process 30-50,000 tonnes of waste a year with no States capital expenditure.
It would be able to recycle a variety of waste products, including wood, industrial, cesspit and veterinary, adding that its facility would produce ‘continuous renewable energy,’ it said.
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