{"id":18995,"date":"2018-02-09T16:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T10:54:17","slug":"campaigners-kicked-in-the-teeth-over-barry-incinerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/campaigners-kicked-in-the-teeth-over-barry-incinerator\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners &#8216;kicked in the teeth&#8217; over Barry incinerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Campaigners in Barry say they will continue to fight against a decision to give the go-ahead to an incinerator in the town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Stop Barry Burning has said it is prepared to take legal action against the plant. Among the campaigners&#8217; concerns are noise, air quality and the effect on health.<\/p>\n<p>Plaid Cymru councillor Ian Johnson said residents feel like they have been &#8220;kicked in the teeth&#8221; by the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Natural Resources Wales (NRW)\u00a0said there were &#8220;no defensible grounds&#8221; to refuse the incinerator, which will be burning non-hazardous wood if plans go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Biomass UK No 2 Ltd could start operating as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson told CJS News: &#8220;Barry residents feel they&#8217;ve been kicked in the teeth, they don&#8217;t feel that there&#8217;s a democratic outcome to their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decisions made don&#8217;t follow natural justice or democracy and people feel very frustrated because they&#8217;re not able to influence major things that have an effect on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NRW said it is satisfied &#8220;that appropriate measures will be in place to allow it to operate without damaging the environment or the health of local people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Johnson added: &#8220;Irrespective of whatever the health concerns may be, it&#8217;s certainly in the wrong location.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners in Barry say they will continue to fight against a decision to give the go-ahead to an incinerator in the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[577,1433,1129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19076,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions\/19076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}