Your chance to question boss of Plymouth incinerator scheme
By Plymouth Herald | Thursday, February 21, 2013, 05:30
THE man in charge of one of Plymouth's most controversial projects, the Devonport incinerator, is to take questions live online next week.
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An artist's impression of the facility
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Paul Carey
Managing Director of MVV Environment Devonport Ltd Paul Carey will be in The Herald office on February 28 taking your questions live on thisisplymouth.
For two hours you will be able to submit written questions and get answers straight from the man in charge of the plan – which will see waste being burnt in a purpose built incinerator at Devonport Dockyard's North Yard.
The plant will generate heat and energy for the community, as well as disposing of our rubbish.
The session will run over two hours on Thursday, February 28.
To follow it, submit questions and take part simply click on the 'Live online questions and answers with MVV' story on thisisplymouth.co.uk at the top of the website.
During the Q&A, you can ask questions and comment on Paul Carey's answers between 12pm and 2pm.
Permission for the £140million incinerator was granted in February 2012 after a lengthy planning process.
It will handle up to 245,000 tonnes of rubbish a year from Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon, and will start working in 2014.
Residents have campaigned against the incinerator fearing noise, pollution, extra lorries carrying waste to and from the plant and chemicals from the waste process.
Plymouth City Council and other authorities have had to come up with a solution to the growing waste problem.
If you want to submit your questions before the day, MVV will look at them ahead of the event and publish answers on the day, as well as after the event through The Herald and thisisplymouth.
You can email your questions or comments to nshaw@theplymouthherald.co.uk with MVV in the subject line before February 26 and we will try to include as many of them as possible in the online Q&A session with Paul Carey.
You can also send your questions to Neil Shaw, thisisplymouth, 17 Brest Road, Plymouth, Pl6 5AA.
Comments
Interesting to read this in the news today (real news from a proper news provider i.e. not the Herald) - UK IN COURT ON AIR POLLUTION LEVELS - http://tinyurl.com/bo8og7d
DEFRA are one of the major organisations behind a national policy of building incinerators (and very much behind the MoD/ SWDWP project at the Barne Barton site) demonstrating to all how much they (don't)care for the health and wellbeing of all citizens, and how trustworthy their hollow meaningless words really are.
By RoundHead0 at 13:27 on 07/03/13
ReportWell that was a complete and utter disgrace. The Herald claiming this to be a chance to "..question boss of Plymouth incinerator scheme" and claiming he'd be "…grilled online…" in a live and open debate.
Several questions were submitted only to be ignored. A fact made obvious when chronologically speaking, many questions submitted prior to those that were published and responded to (I won't say answered as that, as Paul Carey would say, is "simply not true"), were nowhere to be seen. And what of the questions submitted in writing or via email; very few of these if any were published and responded to. Suffice to say that the said ignored and unpublished questions were quite probing, and probably too damaging/ awkward for PAUL 'THE COWARD AND LIAR ' CAREY to answer there and then.
And so the two hours past with very little progress, no real insight, no investigative journalism (as always with the COWARDLY BROWN NOSES OF THE HERALD) and no answers. A job well done eh Herald!?
You really are the most disgustingly vile, corporate bottom sniffing s c u m.
By RoundHead0 at 14:28 on 28/02/13
ReportRe: Plymouth incinerator. Today (Thursday 28 February), Paul Carey, Managing Director of MVV Environment Devonport Ltd, will be in The Herald office taking your questions live on thisisplymouth (http://tinyurl.com/yajaex6). During the Q&A, you can ask questions and comment on Paul Carey's answers between 12pm and 2pm.
By PGStrange at 08:56 on 28/02/13
Reportnote to editor:
its NOT in Devonport
its NOT in the Dockyard
The point of it TrubblnStife is to make it look all lovely and fluffy and we should all be shouting from the rooftops how great it is.....that's from MVV's perspective as they will make a MASSIVE profit out of this. Anyone who thinks this is for our benefit is very much mistaken.
It's an opportunity for the 'reporters' at the Herald to have a good old suck up to Carey and likewise in return so that more money can be spent in the recruitment pages for the '33' workers and more lunches and dinners in the pipeline.
Its all about the money and the people in this City who make the decisions and promote this have been blinded by what they think is a benefit to Plymouth. They would NEVER have considered this in a more affluent area of the City and never so close to homes. It is an utter disgrace and I urge anyone who does not know where this is to go and see for yourselves and look at the cranes that are there now. One is 60mtrs and one is 70mtrs. Then think the chimney stack is 95metres but the building will be 45 metres high and 81 metres width.
Look at how close this is to homes and how many are around it and will have it blocking out everything. Some will lose the sky.
It has been horrendous for the past 6 months with the pile drilling...the noise and vibration has driven many to the edge and what do PCC do about the breaches...NOTHING. Even the ones that they haven't monitored due to an inadequate monitoring regime but have been given with evidence from local residents they ignore. We were sold up the river by our local ward councillor who since the day of the local election we have seen or heard nothing from. Where is he to fight for what he have to experience?
Go to Camels Head and see how busy it gets and how the traffic stacks back onto the A38...and they say 264 lorry movements won't make any difference......
We are guided by fools and the Herald promotes them time and time again.
By LHPlymouth at 15:37 on 23/02/13
ReportSince the building of the incinerator has already been approved, what exactly is the point of this? Clearly it's simply a PR exercise aimed at winning over the irate residents of Devonport – and judging by their reactions so far, I'd say it's unlikely to meet with much success...
By TrubblnStrife at 15:16 on 23/02/13
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