Speaking today North Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly has welcomed the planning service's refusal to grant permission for a new incinerator on North Belfast's boundary
“It is my understanding that the planning service have refused to grant permission for an incinerator at the Ballyutoag Road site.
“I very much welcome this decision as Sinn Féin has been to the forefront of opposing incineration of waste right across Ireland.
“Our constituents in Ligoniel and Glengormely were living in real fear of this proposal being granted on their doorstep and this news will come as a great relief.
“The battle we fought in Belfast against the incinerator being sited on the North Foreshore was a significant victory for ratepayers.
“When the proposal to build it just outside the Belfast boundary arose we resumed the fight."
“Sinn Féin have consistently opposed incineration as a method of dealing with waste. There are serious health and environmental concerns internationally about incineration and far more progressive and green methods of tackling waste management.
“This decision will come as a set back to those spin doctors of incineration that have attempted to pull the wool over residents eyes with claims of waste being safely converted to energy coupled with threats of sanctions from Europe.
“I don't expect this will be the end of the battle, however I am stating clearly that Sinn Féin will join again with the community and environmental lobby groups including Friends of the Earth to oppose the building of incinerators on Irish soil.”
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