The BEaR incinerator is dead
It was with utter delight that I read of the cancellation of
the BEaR project. This goes back a long way, to the days of
the County Council. As Opposition Leader there and subsequently on Central
Bedfordshire Council, I did my best to give the Officers and Conservative
Leadership who promoted this project as hard a time as possible. The nutty
notion that an incinerator belching out Carbon Dioxide and other emissions
could possibly be positive for the environment was pure sophistry. With the
connivance of the then Labour government, the capital cost was to be converted
into day to day expenditure (ie. it was to be bought on the never-never) with
the help of global industrial and financial interests. It is not difficult
therefore to realise that this was unlikely to be a good
deal for the Council Tax payer. I wonder how much the various
Councils have wasted on it to date.
Let’s all rejoice that the BEaR is dead – but be vigilant as
to what its progenitors will come up with next.