{"id":325146,"date":"2025-12-19T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:05:09","slug":"council-joins-calls-against-portland-incinerator-permit-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325146\/","title":{"rendered":"Council joins calls against Portland incinerator permit changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council leader Nick Ireland said: &#8220;The addition of such a range of other waste types will alter the profile of the waste, the incineration process, combustion gases and bottom ash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The transport of additional waste types to the site are likely to result in additional HGV movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The storage of such wastes on the site will lead to additional odour and nuisance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The whole process associated with the decision-making of the incinerator has felt arbitrary and totally out of kilter with community needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Powerfuel Portland spokesperson said: &#8220;We note that the Environment Agency, not Dorset Council, is the appropriate authority that has the technical expertise for determination of matters including public health, odour and waste profile.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The volume of HGV movements will remain within the planning permission that was granted by the Secretary of State and the proposed minor amendment will not impact this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Permission for the incinerator was rejected by Dorset Council in 2023 but the decision was overturned by the government in 2024 following an appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A legal challenge by campaigners was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg51nej7m7po\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed by the Court of Appeal in November.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council leader Nick Ireland said: &#8220;The addition of such a range of other waste types will alter the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-325146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}