A plan to transform the way Glasgow disposes of its waste has taken a major step forward.
Peel Environmental has submitted planning applications to build
a giant energy-from-waste
plant in the Shieldhall area of the city, and a recycling centre in
Clydebank.
100 permanent jobs and enough work to keep 500 construction
workers busy for months would be created should councillors in
Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire grant planning permission for the
Clydeside facilities.
The North Clyde Recycling Centre at Clydebank's disused Rothesay
Dock will be built at a cost of £35m and the proposed South Clyde
Energy Centre located near the city's George V Dock and Hillington
Industrial Estate will cost four times as much at £145m.
Company chiefs at Peel calculate that waste which is unsuitable
for the recycling centre in Clydebank will be able to generate 20MW
of electricity at the South Clyde Energy Centre in Shieldhall - the
equivalent of powering 38,000 homes. If there are no delays each
site could be operational before 2014 and that could mean cheaper
electricity bills for thousands of families in Glasgow.
Myles Kitcher, company director at Peel believes that the
submission of these planning applications is an important step to
bringing significant investment, jobs and a source of renewable
energy to Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire.
Council chiefs in Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire confirmed that
planning applications had been lodged by Peel and said the details
would be considered in "due course."
Source: Evening Times - £180m plan aims to transform waste
disposal in the city