DOVE
Defenders of the Ouse Valley and Estuary
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PresentationsLocal resident Heather has created a panorama image showing the incinerator along with indicators of relative size. Click the image for a larger view: 
This report highlights an increase in birth defects surrounding an incinerator in the London Borough of Bexley. ESCC and B&HCC are worried that they cannot meet the EU Landfill Directive without incineration. Can it be done? Yes it can! See our analysis of how well best practices are being observed.
These two pictures show the proposed incinerator site's close proximity to
residential and other areas. Click for a bigger version in Adobe Reader
(Use Shift+Ctrl+Plus to rotate clockwise): Aerial Picture Three shows an artists impression of the proposed incinerator. This article highlights the story of Grignon, France. It appears that an incinerator could be to blame for unexplainably high levels of cancer in the area. Option 4 outlines a waste strategy which avoids incineration AND meets the Council's waste targets. Is the best alternative to putting biodegradable waste into landfill burning it? Some would think so. The proposed changes to the draft Waste Local Plan, prepared by East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council were made available for public consultation for a 6 week period (10 February 2005 until mid-day 24 March 2005). During this period, DOVE sent their objections to the proposed changes.We have produced a presentation in Adobe Acrobat outlining the harmful effects incinerator pollutants can have (880KB). This presentation is also available in Microsoft PowerPoint format for anyone who wishes to use it in their anti-incinerator campaigns. Please click here for the PowerPoint version. We also have a presentation on Zero Waste v. Incineration produced by Dr Paul Connett. This file is a large download (4,019KB).
The proposed incinerator would be 7 Double Decker buses high:
  
Dick Roberts, Newhaven resident, has sent these pictures to us. They demonstrate the effect of "temperature inversion". This description is provided by the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia:
temperature inversion, condition in which the temperature of the atmosphere increases with altitude in contrast to the normal decrease with altitude. When temperature inversion occurs, cold air underlies warmer air at higher altitudes. Temperature inversion may occur during the passage of a cold front or result from the invasion of sea air by a cooler onshore breeze. Overnight radiative cooling of surface air often results in a nocturnal temperature inversion that is dissipated after sunrise by the warming of air near the ground. A more long-lived temperature inversion accompanies the dynamics of the large high-pressure systems depicted on weather maps. Descending currents of air near the center of the high-pressure system produce a warming (by adiabatic compression), causing air at middle altitudes to become warmer than the surface air. Rising currents of cool air lose their buoyancy and are thereby inhibited from rising further when they reach the warmer, less dense air in the upper layers of a temperature inversion. During a temperature inversion, air pollution released into the atmosphere's lowest layer is trapped there and can be removed only by strong horizontal winds. Because high-pressure systems often combine temperature inversion conditions and low wind speeds, their long residency over an industrial area usually results in episodes of severe smog.
The smoke is coming from the existing asphalt plant on North Quay. The first is a wide angle view and the other 3 are zoomed in for better detail. Notice how the smoke stays low, instead of rising into the air.    
Artists impression: 
Onyx has chosen the site in Newhaven where they wish to impose the incineration plant. With thanks to Chris Drury, we have an artist's impression of the proposed incinerator in it's surroundings: 
An aerial photograph of the proposed area: 
A map of the proposed area: 
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