Fight against Irvine incinerator goes on as campaign group bids to stop plant

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Defiant campaigners are refusing to give up their fight to stop a controversial waste-to-energy plant from opening.However, owners of the Oldhall energy recovery facility in Irvine insist it's safe and environmentally friendly.This week, campaign group Irvine Without Incinerators confirmed it was stepping up its protests with a public meeting planned for early next month in Irvine to discuss concerns.Group member Arthur West said: “We are campaigning quite strongly.

We are trying to get people to write letters to SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) to ask them not to grant the operating licence.“It appears waste is coming in from other areas to be burned there.

We are also putting pressure on Octopus Energy, who are financing the project, and we will protest in Glasgow at Ofgem, the energy regulators, on August 4 as they should be looking into what Octopus Energy are going to be doing."They claim to be 100 per cent for renewable energy but yet they are involved in this process.

We don’t think it will heat homes. We have a public meeting on August 3 in the Volunteer Rooms at 7pm to discuss our concerns.