Cover-up claim on incinerators
November 01 2000

Civil servants were yesterday accused by MPs of a cover-up, after they suppressed information on plans to tackle a predicted rise in deaths and pollution-related illness caused by a new generation of waste-burning incinerators.

The human form of mad cow disease claimed its youngest victim yesterday as it emerged that potentially lethal BSE-infected waste is leaking into the environment from the carcasses of infected cattle.

Toxic fumes from refuse ovens could kill 9,000
October 29 2000

Government plans to burn household waste in incinerators rather than recycle it will produce so much toxic pollution it will cause almost 9,000 deaths.

Dear Mr Blair, thank you for renewing your promise - made so long ago that we thought you had forgotten - to put the environment at the heart of government. As we found during the fuel blockades, when political leaders disregard an issue, so does everyone else. When you failed to refer to the environment, the greens found it hard to persuade the media that this should be central to a discussion of the crisis.

Going for the burn...

Blair accused of failing the environment
October 24 2000

Green groups waiting for Tony Blair's first speech on the environment in almost four years yesterday challenged the prime minister to admit that Labour had failed to advance many environmental issues since coming to power.

Meacher wins 25% target for recycling
May 26 2000

Minister toughens up white paper and gives conditional promise of no new incinerators as contamination fears confirmed

Tories turn green over incinerators
May 20 2000

A moratorium on the building of all new incinerators, until British scientific research rules out a cancer risk, was called for yesterday by Archie Norman, the Tory party's environment spokesman.

Britain steps out of line on incinerators
May 19 2000

Europe is moving to phase out the building of huge incinerators just as Britain is planning a new chain across the country as part of the government's waste strategy, Ludwig Kraemer, head of the EU waste management directorate, revealed last night.

The leaked documents linking incinerators to cancer are a stick of dynamite under Michael Meacher, the minister responsible for announcing the government's new waste strategy.

Dioxins, the highly toxic chemicals produced by waste incineration and industrial processes which tests have shown to be lingering in the bodies of people all over the planet, have been identified as the cause of many cancers in a new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The row over government plans to increase incinerator capacity in Britain took a new turn yesterday when a cabinet minister sought assurances over the safety of an "energy from waste" plant in his constituency.

The row over the government's plans to increase incinerator capacity in Britain took a new turn yesterday when a cabinet minister sought safety assurances over the operation of an energy from waste plant in his constituency.

Nick Raynsford, the minister for planning and housing, has asked us to point out, in connection with our report, £120m stadium to be built next to incinerator, April 25, page one, that he is no longer minister for London. He has not had anything to do with any application for an extension of incinerator facilities in Edmonton.

Hundreds of toddlers have been banned from playing in allotments in Newcastle because poisoned ash has been spread on footpaths from an incinerator which the government has earmarked to double in capacity.

£120m stadium to be built next to incinerator
April 25 2000

Athletes coming to Britain to compete in the 2005 world championships will be in danger of damaging their health by breathing in noxious fumes from the country's largest incinerator, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.