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| Foreshore 'best for incinerator' | Foreshore 'best for incinerator' |
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| An incinerator on the north foreshore of Belfast Lough is still the best option for dealing with the city's waste, Edwin Poots has said. | An incinerator on the north foreshore of Belfast Lough is still the best option for dealing with the city's waste, Edwin Poots has said. |
| The idea was recently rejected by city councillors, but the environment minister says it is the best option and he wants the issue re-examined. | The idea was recently rejected by city councillors, but the environment minister says it is the best option and he wants the issue re-examined. |
| Mr Poots says EU landfill levies will cost Belfast ratepayers £2.4m a year. | Mr Poots says EU landfill levies will cost Belfast ratepayers £2.4m a year. |
| This does include the 10 other councils affected if the incinerator does not go ahead. | |
| "What would go there would bare no resemblance to what existed at that site for many years, people need not fear from the quality of process that would exist there," said Mr Poots. | "What would go there would bare no resemblance to what existed at that site for many years, people need not fear from the quality of process that would exist there," said Mr Poots. |
| "I was actually talking to somebody who would be interested in establishing industry in the area and I asked them the question would the incinerator be an issue for them if they were wanting to come there and create jobs, and their view was absolutely not." | "I was actually talking to somebody who would be interested in establishing industry in the area and I asked them the question would the incinerator be an issue for them if they were wanting to come there and create jobs, and their view was absolutely not." |
| Last month Belfast City Council voted against plans to build the waste incinerator on land it owns on Belfast Lough's north foreshore. | |
| However, councillors voted for a mechanical biological waste treatment centre at the site. | |
| Councillors had already rejected the incinerator plan, but it was revealed the casting vote had been wrongly attributed to a councillor who was not at the meeting, and a further vote was required. |