Tory MP calling for debate on burner plan

Shrewsbury's MP is calling for a parliamentary debate over plans to build an incinerator in the town.

Daniel Kawczynski has tabled five questions to the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Mr Kawczynski said he was determined to get the plans to build a waste burner in Harlescott overturned.

He said: "I'm quite determined to do everything possible to stop the incinerator being built in Shrewsbury.

"Now the new Government is in place I'll be sending in five questions to the House of Commons next week to draw attention to my concerns about the incinerator being built in Shrewsbury.

"I'm also trying to secure a parliamentary debate to highlight my concerns."

The five questions are to ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what her department's policy on mass-burn incineration of household waste is and what her department's most recent assessment of the efficiency of energy generation from mass-burn incinerators compared to alternative forms of energy generating waste disposal, such as anaerobic digesters, is.

The other questions are: What plans her department has to implement reducing the number of mass-burn incineration facilities across Europe and what alternatives to mass burn incineration her department has considered.

The final question is: "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the financial implications with regards to the building of new mass burn incineration facilities."