27 April 2011 – Keith Taylor, the Green MEP for Oxfordshire and the South East, visited Ardley in Oxfordshire today to meet with members of Ardley Against Incinerator.

Keith Taylor MEP visited the proposed 300,000 tonne incinerator site to assess for himself the impact the proposed incinerator with have on the area. The Ardley Against Incinerator campaign recently lodged an appeal at the High Court and campaign members briefed Keith on the details.

Keith believes that incineration is not an efficient or sustainable way to deal with our rubbish. Recently he also visited the site of the proposed Aylesbury Vale incinerator in Buckinghamshire to support members of ‘Stop Aylesbury Vale Incinerator’.

Keith said: “Burning our waste is an inefficient and out of date way to get rid of rubbish and will undermine efforts to increase recycling in Oxfordshire. The council’s plan to close recycling facilities and build a large incinerator in the heart of countryside is illogical. This incinerator will create a huge increase in traffic which will bring with it poorer road safety and damaging air quality for local people.

“Oxfordshire County Council should be encouraging people to create less waste by helping them to re-use and recycle, rather than relying on crude solutions which don’t address the root problem. The excuse of generating energy from waste just won’t wash with local people. The reality is that generating energy from waste in this way is more polluting than energy from a gas fired power station. I hope that the campaigners can demonstrate at the High Court that the Ardley Fields incinerator is the wrong solution in the wrong place.”

ENDS