Members of a campaign group say they are committed to stopping an incinerator from being built in their rural village. RAGE Against The Incinerator is a group of residents working to prevent an incinerator from being built at the former colliery site in Bilsthorpe.
RAGE members claim they have been contacted by local authority planners who confirmed that Vital Energi Ltd would be submitting a planning application within the next six to eight weeks for the incinerator, and that this would not require a full consultation to be carried out.
The group have environmental concerns over the incinerator contributing to climate change. They claim the Bilsthorpe incinerator, which will have 60m high chimneys, is expected to burn up to 200,000 tonnes of waste each year, and an incinerator emits around one tonne of CO2 for every tonne incinerated, which means up to 200,000 tonnes of CO2 could be created per year.
