CORNWALL COUNCIL CONTINUES TO FLOG A DEAD HORSE ON THE INCINERATOR

1.00.00pm GMT Tue 26th Jan 2010

Steve Gilbert has said the council should cancel the contract for the incinerator

Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Cornwall Council for once again failing to grasp the nettle and cancel the contract for the incinerator planned for St Dennis.

The Lib Dem candidate made the comments after taking a day out from his election campaign to attend today's meeting of Cornwall Council's "Waste Development Advisory Panel" which met to recommend a course of action for the Council's Cabinet meeting in February.

Steve said, "The Council is continuing to flog what should now be a dead horse. Rather than spending time and money on working up new proposals for dealing with Cornwall's waste they are asking SITA to prepare a revised plan for a smaller version of the incinerator on the same site. It's barmy."

Steve Gilbert added, "The recommendation that the panel should have made was to scrap the contract and start again on a sustainable solution. In the end, despite objections from the Liberal Democrats, Mebyon Kernow and one Independent Councillor, the Conservative-led panel pushed the plans through."

"The new Conservative administration should have lived up to their June election promise and grasped the nettle on this issue. Instead, the Conservative PPC for the area was nowhere to be seen and her Councillors seem intent on continuing to waste time and money in order to play politics with this issue."