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| 08 Aug 2008 |
Email Environment AgencyThe Environment Agency is inviting comments in relation to the proposed Newhaven incinerator Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permit, and we encourage you to make your views known. To help you we have put a letter generator online. Please make your submissions before 20 August 2008. |
| 19 Jul 2008 |
DOVE River Walk, every SundayUpdate: we have some photos from the event: 51 photos taken by Cat Fletcher: 22 photos taken by M.Jenkins: DOVE member Cat Fletcher is organising a River Walk in opposition to the proposed Newhaven incinerator. The walk starts at 10am on Sunday 20th July at the Recreation Ground in Newhaven. Click here for full details. |
| 18 Jul 2008 |
Climate Camp come to NewhavenClimate Camp will be travelling along the South Coast and up to Kingsnorth in Medway, Kent via a human caravan that will be travelling by foot and public transport, bike, float and boat, including veggie oil recycled vehicles. They will have events during the day and on some nights they will be camping overnight. They will traverse this distance over 9 days, arriving at Climate Camp, which will be at the Kingsnorth Coal fired Power Station. More info: page 1 and page 2 Climate Camp web address:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/home?q=node/52 Weblog:
http://stopincinerationnownetwork.wordpress.com |
| 17 Jul 2008 |
High Court action, please come along!There will be a Judicial Review aimed at quashing the Incinerator Planning permission at the Royal Courts of Justice on the 21st and 22nd of July starting at 10:30 am on Monday the 21st. COURT 3, Before MR JUSTICE SULLIVAN, Monday 21 July, 2008.
CO/1360/2008 The Queen on the application of Dove 2000 Limited v East Sussex County Council.
CO/1304/2008 The Queen on the application of Lewes District Friends Of The Earth Ltd v East Sussex County Council. We are providing a coach for people wanting to go. It's a 49 seater coach leaving on Monday 21st July departing at 0730, pick up point Sainsbury Newhaven. The coach will leave London at 1630hrs. Price £10 to be booked and paid in advance through Carla Butler. A District Councillor is providing the coach for no profit. It will be advertised in the Argus and Sussex Express too. Carla Butler is the organiser for this, she can be contacted on 01273 510 368. We believe that children under 14 are not allowed into the court room. The Royal Courts of Justice are on the Strand WC2. The nearest underground stations are Temple on the District and Circle lines, Holborn on the Central and Piccadilly lines and Chancery Lane on the Central Line. Click here for a map. Bus numbers 4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76, 172, and 341 stop outside the RCJ. Bus numbers 1, 59, 68, 91, 168, 171, 188, 243, 521 and X68 stop on Kingsway and Aldwych. Go to www.tfl.gov.uk for more detailed travel information. If you have a disabled badge, you can park by prior arrangement, giving 24 hours notice. You need to fax the details of your name, car registration number, disabled badge number and the Court number you are attending to 020 7947 6622. This enables them to arrange parking in the car park closest to the Court. If you cannot fax, then you can ring on 020 7947 6506 to enquire on procedure. There are parking meters in Lincolns Inn Fields and Maltravers St. The nearest NCP car park is in Shoe Lane (off New Fetter Lane), with additional ones at Drury Lane and Holborn. People arriving at the court should look for the case Dove 2000 Ltd and Newhaven Town Council V East Sussex County Council CO/360/08. |
| 16 Jul 2008 |
DOVE holds a successful Open MeetingIt was a well attended open public meeting with approximately 100 people representing Newhaven, Seaford, Bishopstone, Piddinghoe/ surrounding areas and Brighton. There was representation from the local Councillors and political organisations. Newhaven Police sent along a uniformed officer to attend and listen to the feelings of the People.
It was a lively informative meeting, the outcome of which was the clear message that the Incinerator is far from a 'done deal' and the fight to seek justice and stop the incinerator is definitely alive and moving forward.
There were a lot of proactive and good ideas from the floor for fund raising and getting the 'word out' to the wider community, Dove hope to co-ordinate with the members and move these forward.
Dove thanks all who attended and shared their ideas and expertise. Dove with the continued support of the members are committed to stop this out dated method of Incineration and make sure that the wider community have a voice, are not ignored by East Sussex County Council & Brighton City Council and their elected (decision making) Councillors.
If anyone has any further contributions to make by way of finance, time giving or fundraising ideas please email these to the webmaster of Dove. |
| 08 Jul 2008 |
Come to the DOVE open meeting, 15th July 2008We are holding an open meeting on Tuesday 15th July 2008 at the Hillcrest Centre, Newhaven; it starts at 7:30pm. Click here for more details. |
| 21 Jun 2008 |
Send us your poems!We have launched a poem page where we aim to publish your incinerator-related poems; to kick us off our chairman Chris Chatwin has written one entitled "The They". If we get a good response we will publish a book of poems against the incinerator, so get writing! |
| 03 Jun 2008 |
Veolia Attempt Psychological Warfare on Newhaven Population in Arrogant Disregard of Due Process
East Sussex County Council claim to have negotiated terms on all the leaseholds of the parcels of land at North Quay in order to start building their Incinerator (see paragraph 2.3 of C3Jun2008Item8CPO1.pdf). Because of this they say they do not require the Compulsory Purchase Order and so do not want the Inspector’s Report to be published. We suspect the draft Inspector’s Report does not support the Compulsory Purchase and that some of the reasoning for that lack of support may well enhance our legal case against the planning application. We have made a request for a copy of that draft report.
Veolia have started to clear the site at North Quay and are putting in place equipment to start cleaning up the contaminated top 4 metres of soil which they must do prior to any construction work (see photos below). 
Temporary accommodation for the anticipated 260 strong construction workforce (which will come in from outside this area) has been put in place on land adjacent to the incinerator site. This comprises 50 portakabins in double storey format as shown in photo below. 
We have consulted our legal team with regard taking out an injunction against any further work being done. Veolia would normally argue that their financial investment in the clean up operation puts pressure on the courts to allow them to continue and go ahead and build the incinerator even if it is shown that the planning permission for this mass burn technology is flawed. We have effectively pre-empted this tactic. In fact, because Veolia are continuing to invest time and money at this level without having a valid Pollution Prevention Certificate and in the knowledge that permission is sought to challenge the planning permission through the courts, their arrogant “ploughing ahead” in this fashion may well count against them. We consider that they would be foolish to actually start construction unless and until they have a valid Pollution Prevention and Control Permit and the legal challenges from DOVE, Newhaven Town Council and Friends of the Earth have been done. You may have already heard about these things or seen evidence yourself if you use the public footpaths along the river bank. These actions are all designed to firm up the idea in the minds of the local population that the incinerator is now a certain “done deal” and that any further protest or resistance would be futile. We are not alone in our continuing strong belief that moving from landfill to mass burn incineration at this throughput for East Sussex and Brighton & Hove is not the right choice for the next 50 years. We will continue to try to avert it by all available means and we need your undaunted support. Nil illegitemi carborundum! 
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| 09 May 2008 |
Latest on ESCC and CPOPlease click here for out latest letter from East Sussex County Council relating to the Compulsory Purchase Order on North Quay. |
| 20 Apr 2008 |
Environment Agency - Schedule 4We have two documents relating to "Schedule 4", the Environment Agency's right to request more information regarding the Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permit. They are: |
| 13 Mar 2008 |
Environment Agency approves water abstractionThe Environment Agency has approved the application by Hochtief to extract water from the River Ouse for the purposes of constructing the incinerator. Read here for more. |
| 02 Feb 2008 |
Thank you for your supportWe would like once again to thank all of you who have given generously in response to our recent request for financial support in our bid to fight the incinerator in the courts During the week we have collected a further £700 in donations. This time we have received a donation from a gentleman in the Fiji Islands - about as far away as you can get from the proposed incinerator! He has been keeping in touch via the website. The legal challenge still needs further funds, however, so your continued donations are very important to us. Alan Denyer |
| 30 Jan 2008 |
Wine Tasting in NewhavenDOVE Supporter Robert Wheeler is organising a Spring Wine Tasting session featuring a selection of varied and interesting wines; all proceeds going to DOVE. It is to be held on Saturday 23 February 2008 at The Hillcrest Centre Cafe, Newhaven, from 7.30pm -10pm, tickets are £10. Call Robert Wheeler on 01273 516948 or Mike Gould on 01273 510287. We also have a poster you can print and display. |
| 20 Jan 2008 |
REPORT ON THE PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE CPOWe have created a summary of events of the Public Inquiry into the Compulsory Purchase Order. |
| 11 Jan 2008 |
Thank you for your supportWe would like to thank all of you who have given generously in response to our recent request for donations. In just six days we have collected £700 in donations; we have even received a donation from France! The legal challenge still needs further funds however, so your continued donations are very much welcome. |
| 05 Jan 2008 |
Support DOVE in its legal challenge to the Incinerator Planning Application!As you may already know from the website Ms N. Day has managed to quash the incinerator operating permit, this will be very helpful in stopping the compulsory purchase of the land to build the incinerator, it will also assist in quashing the planning application. We know that it is not the best time of year to ask for money but DOVE has now joined forces with Ms N. Day in a legal challenge to quash the planning application for the Newhaven Incinerator; we need to raise at least £20,000 to fight this legal campaign. Your donations so far have allowed us to initiate the legal campaign with a pre action protocol letter which is on the website. If you want to stop the Incinerator please give generously. Cheques should be made payable to DOVE 2000 Ltd. and sent to DOVE 2000 Ltd, PO Box 158, Newhaven, BN9 1AH. Yours, DOVE. |
| 04 Jan 2008 |
Public Inquiry resumesThe CPO public inquiry will resume on 9th January 2008 at 9:30am and will sit until the 11th January 2008. Please note also that the venue has changed, it is now to be held at the Pelham House Hotel in Lewes. Relating to these closing sessions, we have two summing up documents: |
| 29 Dec 2007 |
DOVE makes legal challenge against planning applicationDOVE, together with Nicki Day (who recently forced the PPC permit to be quashed in the courts), has lodged a legal objection to the planning application granted by East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council. Click here to read the details. We will shortly be making an appeal for donations to fund this legal battle, further details to follow. |
| 06 Dec 2007 |
DOVE member Nicki Day quashes incinerator pollution permit, the first time in legal history!On 5th December 2007 the High Court quashed the pollution permit for a proposed £150 million municipal waste incinerator at Newhaven because the Environment Agency failed to properly assess carbon dioxide emissions from the plant. Veolia ES South Downs Limited intend to construct an Energy Recovery Facility to burn over 210,000 tonnes of waste per year from East Sussex and Brighton and Hove. In doing so it would produce 107,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. The Environment Agency granted a pollution prevention and control permit (PPC permit) for the incinerator in November 2006. Judicial review proceedings were brought by a local resident, Mrs Nicki Day, to quash the permit. The day before the trial of the case was due to start, the Environment Agency and Veolia agreed that the permit was unlawfully granted and should be quashed. Mrs Day argued that because of the effects of carbon dioxide in increasing climate change it was a pollutant. Consequently the Environment Agency were obliged to consider whether this pollution was acceptable and to impose a limit on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted or impose some similar restriction. The Environment Agency initially resisted the proceedings, and the climate change point, but shortly before the hearing they accepted that they needed to give further consideration to carbon dioxide emissions and had given inadequate reasons on the issue. Veolia agreed and the permit was quashed by Mr Justice Sullivan. The case establishes that pollution permits should be used to limit or prevent carbon dioxide emissions from industrial facilities (where emission trading does not apply). The operator and the Environment Agency had argued that the effect of the incinerator on global warming was insignificant and that the rise in sea level would be ‘infinitesimally small and far beyond any plausible means of estimation’ so was not a problem. They now accept that this approach was inadequate. The case also raised issues of the effect of an admittedly defective advertisement, whether responses to the environmental statement should be considered by the Agency and visual and emissions impacts on the adjacent area of outstanding natural beauty and countryside. Mrs Day was represented by John Dunkley of Earthrights Solicitors and barrister Richard Harwood of 39 Essex Street Chambers. Many congratulations Nicki! |
| 05 Dec 2007 |
ACTION REQUIRED! Water abstraction and discharge for constructionHochtief (UK) Construction Limited and Hochtief Construction A.G. are seeking a licence from the Environment Agency to allow them to abstract water from the River Ouse Estuary at North Quay to be used for industrial process water during the construction period of the Newhaven Incinerator and a Trade Effluent Discharge Permit to allow them to put that water back into the river after use. Limited EA Details here. Environment Agency guidlines for objecting are here. If you wish to make a representation about the application you can use our letter wizard. If you wish to write your own objection your must quote the name of the applicant, Hochtief (UK) Construction Limited for the Abstraction application with reference number 169S/0026 and Hochtief Construction AG for the Discharge with reference number P13242/S/07 to the Environment Agency; either at Saxon House, Little High Street, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1DH or Orchard House, Endeavour Park, London Road, Addington, West Malling, Kent, ME19 5SH or by email to southern.kentarea@environment-agency.gov.uk by no later than 14 December 2007. |
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