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This small plot of land, between Rover Way and the Severn Estuary, has a dirty hidden history
Environmental campaigners and local politicians—Huw Thomas, Vaughan Gething, Stephen Doughty to name a few—are warning it will also have a dirty future
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Environmental campaigners and local politicians—Huw Thomas, Vaughan Gething, Stephen Doughty to name a few—are warning it will also have a dirty future
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Developers Parc Calon Gwyrdd were recently given renewed planning permission to build a huge wood-burning power plant on the small plot of land
That's despite clear concerns about how burning wood for energy emits more carbon than coal, as well as harmful air pollution
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That's despite clear concerns about how burning wood for energy emits more carbon than coal, as well as harmful air pollution
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I tried to contact Parc Calon to put those concerns to them. But the company doesn't have a website, or any contact details anywhere. So it is unclear who is behind the scheme
What is clear however: Cardiff council owns the land, as these docs from the Land Registry show
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What is clear however: Cardiff council owns the land, as these docs from the Land Registry show
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Why is this publicly-owned land being leased to developers for a biomass power plant? (When even the leader of the council objected to the plans?)
In a statement, the council said it decided to lease the land in 2014, before the current administration. But did not say why
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In a statement, the council said it decided to lease the land in 2014, before the current administration. But did not say why
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One clue why was revealed in docs filed with the original planning app in 2017
Parc Calon were granted permission on condition they first clean up the land— removing a million tonnes of rubble and making safe toxic chemicals buried underground
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Parc Calon were granted permission on condition they first clean up the land— removing a million tonnes of rubble and making safe toxic chemicals buried underground
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Private Eye described woody biomass as a 'highly polluting scam underpinned by a blatant fallacy'
Getting Parc Calon to clean up this land would prevent harmful buried chemicals leaking into the estuary, polluting the water
Is it worth letting them pollute the air instead?
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Getting Parc Calon to clean up this land would prevent harmful buried chemicals leaking into the estuary, polluting the water
Is it worth letting them pollute the air instead?
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