Listen: Academic calls gasification plan ‘preposterous’ and challenges supporters to debate
Dr Paul Connett, threw down the gauntlet at a public meeting organised by anti-gasification group, Zero Waste North West on Thursday (September 19).
He challenged supporters of the plant to find a scientist or engineer willing to debate the issue with him.
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Hide AdAddressing the meeting, Dr Connett said he had fought against incineration for decades.
“This 28 year involvement has taken me to 49 states in the United States and 60 different countries.
“Between 1985 and 1995 in the United States we stopped over 300 incinerators from being built and very few, if at all any, have been built since.
“Now this plan that you have in front of you is utterly preposterous. It is the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen for a very long time,” he said.
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