Omega incinerator plan doesn't exist

NO plans exist for an incinerator on the Omega development site at Warrington.
This assurance has been given by Andy Farrall, the borough council’s strategic director for environment and regeneration.
But the borough is committed to a waste strategy involving energy from waste and that means a incinerator – of modest size – to deal with local waste only, he told members of Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council.
Mr Farrall attended the meeting in response to fears that an incinerator was to be built at Omega and that its “fall out” would be on the Culcheth and Glazebury area.
He gave an assurance that no decision had been taken on the location of the incinerator.
Reports that it would be at Omega were “pure speculation” he said.
“We haven’t even started to look for sites yet. There are a number in the borough and Omega could be one of them. We will be looking at various locations and there will be consultation before any decision is made.”
Mr Farrall said the borough council still wanted a high class, international business development at Omega.
But in the current economic climate, the original scheme was not really viable. It was now likely to be a mixed-use site and it was likely to be a couple of years before anything happened.
“There is no planning policy for Omega other than that it will be a business site,” he said.
Mr Farrall said the incinerator Warrington would build would be modest in size, affordable and would deal with locally produced waste only. This would end up as ash which would be “good useable stuff.”
Over the next 6-12 months the council would be looking for a location. It would produce either electricity to be fed into the national grid or heat which would be used to heat buildings such as hospitals, schools or even homes.
Coun Keith Bland said he had seen a modern incinerator which was monitored by the Environment Agency and which produced no emissions at all.
If it did, it would immediately be shut down for six months for the problem to be rectified.