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Waste Campaign Group
What you can do to stop incineration in Cornwall
There is very little time to act - we need to do all we can to persuade Cornwall County Council to think again, and avoid committing us to old technology for the next 25 years
Before March 31st: Contact your local member of Cornwall County Council http://db.cornwall.gov.uk/members/MemHome.asp and ask them to get four other Councillors to write a resolution with them, and to get it to the chairman before the end of MARCH, as officers will do anything they can to prevent this, asking to: STOP THE WHOLE PFI PROCESS UNTIL A DEBATE HAS BEEN HAD AT THE NEXT FULL COUNCIL MEETING ON APRIL 19TH, TO ARRANGE FOR A WASTE STRATEGY TO BE IN PLACE BEFORE CORNWALL'S LARGEST CONTRACT IS LET, BY THE PRESENT COUNCIL WHO COMMENCED THIS PROCESS, NOT A NEWLY VOTED IN COUNCIL AFTER THIS DATE.
· Send in a question and attend
the Council Meeting April 19th. See part 3.1.5 of http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Constitution/part04(01).htm
which states: receive questions from members of the public, provided written
notice has been received by the County Solicitor (Ian Kennaway) at least
2 full working days before the date of the meeting, to be answered by
the appropriate executive member or chairman of a committee or other person
as the Chairman may direct and provide answers in relation to matters
which, in the opinion of the person presiding at the meeting, are relevant
to the business of the meeting.
Check the date and details of the meeting at: http://db.cornwall.gov.uk/members/ComMeet.asp?22
and see agendas and minutes of meetings at: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Councils/Papers/default.htm
· After March 31st ask your local member if a resolution had been
put in before 31st March for a debate. If not ask them to visit http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Constitution/part04(01).htm
This is about calling Extraordinary Meetings and 4.1.4 says any five members
of the Council, if they have signed a requisition presented to the Chairman
of the Council and he/she has refused to call a meeting or has failed
to call a meeting within seven days of the presentation of the requisition,
can have a meeting.
· Why so urgent? Elections are at the beginning of May. New Members
will come in, and Officers will rush this item past them, as they do not
want it to be revealed how much money the PFI process has cost already.
And that this is leading them on a path to incineration, which the County
Council already decided on five years ago, and which could be thrown out
with all this money spent without a Waste Strategy.
· Write to your MP asking if they support this process and if they
think any more money or CCC time should be spent on this and request a
response by return mail.
· Write to your newspaper urging the public to look at this website
and take action now before it is too late and as a tax payer signed up
to incineration for the next 25 years. Do not forget to put your name
and address on the letter or it will not be published, you can ask the
editor to withhold the information on the page.