Environment Agency launches 2nd Consultation on Covanta Incinerator

MMAG have just had an update from the Environment Agency confirming a new single opportunity for public consultation on the environmental permit for Covanta.  This public consultation will run from 11/09/17 to 23/10/17.

All respondents to the first consultation should have received an email detailing the 2nd Consultation –  Click Here to View.  Please note – you can respond to the 2nd Consultation even if you did not submit comments during the 1st Consultation.

The Environment Agency will be holding a drop in session at the Forest Centre Marston Moretaine on Wednesday 20th September from 1pm – 7pm. Click Here to View Poster

The Draft Permit and decision document can be viewed and comments submitted at https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/psc/mk43-9ly-covanta-energy-limited-1/

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Covanta Community Liaison Panel – Full Minutes and Handouts – 12/06/17

The latest Community Liaison Panel Minutes are now available.

Minutes

Meeting 22 (4) – 12/04/17

Handouts

Low-Level Restoration Works – Update Presentation
Traffic Management Presentation

All previous minutes and handouts of the Community Liaison Panel dating back to September 2009 can be found by Clicking Here

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Covanta Community Liaison Panel – Full Minutes and Handouts – 20/03/17

The latest Community Liaison Panel Minutes are now available.

Minutes

Meeting 21 (3) – 20/03/17

Handouts

Environmental Permit Process
Restoration Works
Rail Crossing and Electricity Subsidy Scheme
Traffic Management Presentation

All previous minutes and handouts of the Community Liaison Panel dating back to September 2009 can be found by Clicking Here

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MMAG submits objection to Covanta Environmental Permit

Please see MMAG’s submission to the Environment Agency in response to the Public Consultation on the Covanta Rookery Pit Incinerator Environmental Permit.

The Consultation remains open until 18th April for residents and interested parties to submit objections/comments.  Please visit https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/psc/mk43-9ly-covanta-energy-limited/ and complete the online submission.

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Covanta Environmental Permit Public Consultation open until 18 April

The period for consultation on Covanta’s environmental permit application has now opened and runs until 18 April 2017.

This link allows you to submit your views. MMAG will circulate our comments in due course which you may wish to replicate in your submission. In the meantime you can use the link to read the submissions already made.

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Unusual View of Marston Vale

A long standing supporter of MMAG has been taking an unusual view of the Marston Vale, including Rookery Pit South, the proposed site of Covanta’s incinerator.

Why not take a look!

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Covanta Update – Notice of Land Possession around Rookery Pit for works granted by DCO

Following on from the CLP Minutes MMAG was advised that Covanta-Veolia had also issued the following update:

“Covanta and Veolia have today (Monday 31st October 2016) taken the first steps towards implementing the planning consent for Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility.  Covanta has served notices on land owners of plots within the boundary of the Development Consent Order (DCO) planning consent that will enable them to exercise their rights to treat (i.e. negotiate) and to take possession of the land via compulsory purchase.  Over the next few days CVA will be formally taking possession by fencing off the plots of land ready to undertake certain works consented under the DCO.  This includes land owned by Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire Councils, the Highways Agency, Hanson (owner of the former brickworks land) and FCC (owner of Stewartby Landfill Site) as well as other smaller organisations and private landowners.  Statutory compensation will be paid to the landowners in accordance with legislation.”

Residents have already observed notices with maps posted around the site to this effect and land plots have been taken possession of since 15th November 2016. Please Click Here to view pictures taken by a local resident.

Please note these notices are not part of the Environmental Permit.  Residents and interested parties will still have an opportunity to object to the Environmental Permit in 2017.

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