esports arena philippines No. 6 Purdue routs MarshallNew incinerators are set to be blocked by Labour ministers if they do not help meet environmental objectives By CHRISTOPHER MCKEON Published: 19:02 EST, 29 December 2024 | Updated: 19:33 EST, 29 December 2024 e-mail View comments New incinerators will be blocked by the Government if they do not help meet environmental objectives under rules unveiled on Monday. Developers will have to show that their project either helps reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste going to landfill, or replaces an older, less efficient incinerator. The move forms part of the Government’s drive to increase recycling rates, which have held at about 45 per cent of household waste since 2015. Environment minister Mary Creagh said: ‘For far too long, the nation has seen its recycling rates stagnate and relied on burning household waste, rather than supporting communities to keep resources in use for longer. ‘That ends today, with clear conditions for new energy from waste plants – they must be efficient and support net zero and our economic growth mission, before they can get the backing needed to be built.’ Developers will also have to ensure their incinerators are ready for carbon capture technology, and demonstrate how the heat they produce can be used to help cut heating bills for households. The Marchwood ERF incineration plant in Southampton. New incinerators will have to be shown to help meet environmental objectives to not be blocked by ministers Developers will have to show hat their project either helps reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste going to landfill or replaces a less efficient incinerator for it to be approved. Pictured: The South East London Heat and Power waste incineration plant Viridor Runcorn Energy Recovery Facility in Runcorn. New incinerators will also have to be ready for carbon capture technology The Government expects that its ‘crackdown’ on new incinerators will mean only a limited number are built, while still reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill and enabling the country to process the waste it produces. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the country was almost at the point where it had enough waste facilities to handle non-recyclable rubbish, and so had limited need for new incinerators. But the proposals stop short of the plans included in the Conservatives’ 2024 manifesto, which committed to a complete ban on new incinerators due to their ‘impact on local communities’ and declining demand as recycling increased. Labour Conservatives Share or comment on this article: New incinerators are set to be blocked by Labour ministers if they do not help meet environmental objectives e-mail Add comment

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Opposition continues to build against the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, a proposed transmission line that would carry electricity from Pennsylvania to Virginia, cutting across Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick counties to do so. The process surrounding this project raises serious issues and questions that remain unanswered. The MPRP will compromise no fewer than 156 properties, 476 acres of farmland, 125 acres of forest and 17 acres of wetlands in Carroll County alone. The Board of Carroll County Commissioners opposes the Project, along with our governor, Wes Moore, our entire delegation to Annapolis, friends in Baltimore and Frederick counties, other state and federal officials, environmental organizations, and above all, our citizens and citizen groups like Stop MPRP. The project was dropped on us. Regional power operator PJM unilaterally decided it was necessary to increase the energy supply for data centers in Virginia by using Maryland as an expedient byway from Pennsylvania. Public Service Enterprise Group, or PSEG, the New Jersey company awarded with the construction of the powerline, is prepared to preempt local control while threatening the use of eminent domain to fulfill its contract, pending approval from Maryland’s Public Service Commission. Last month, PSEG hosted three public meetings concerning the project. Attending citizens were treated with disdain when they confronted PSEG with legitimate concerns and reasonable objections. PSEG, meanwhile, unconvincingly claims that it is seeking citizen input regarding the proposed route, as if potential minor adjustments to a massive transmission line are somehow a magnanimous concession to the local community from whom land will be seized for a project from which they will not benefit. As Governor Moore , “I’m still not certain what the benefit is to Marylanders and I’m going to stand with the people on this.” PSEG claims there is no alternative. Yet using existing rights-of-way, rebuilding, upgrading, running lines underground, on-site generation and 70-some alternate routes and remedies are all conspicuously absent from a real discussion about the project — a discussion that has not actually happened. Questions have been posed about how energy demand was estimated, whether those estimates are accurate and whether PJM is correctly gauging existing energy supply. PSEG has been less than forthcoming. Initially, the company blamed a data center in Frederick, Maryland, as if this might make the MPRP more acceptable for Marylanders — but the data center denies requesting or needing the additional energy. PSEG subsequently admitted that the power will be for Virginia. Importantly, commissioners have sought to learn on what specific legal grounds the project was authorized in the first place without needing local consent. To this date, no one has provided Carroll County with that critical information. Carroll’s commissioners have therein adopted a resolution to invoke coordination, a process under federal law whereby a local government, objecting to projects like MPRP, can seek to meet with the federal government to express opposition, find answers and address local concerns. We commissioners also recently formalized our opposition in a resolution sponsored by Commissioner Tom Gordon. In our opposition to the project, we recognize the justifiable concerns of citizens, property rights, community integrity, the environment and more. It is no wonder backers of the project do not recognize these concerns. They do not make their homes here. If they did, or if they had taken time to get to know us, they would see how closely knit our citizens, small towns, rural villages and farming communities are. They would know how carefully we’ve managed our agricultural preservation program for half a century nand how unfailingly our citizens have defended that program. They would know how much the land and the natural world mean to us — the open skies, the woods, the streams, the wildlife and wild meadows. To PSEG, it’s just a field. To us, it’s a farm. To PSEG, it’s just a right of way. To us, it’s a way of life. To PSEG, it’s the latest job site. To us, it’s home. This isn’t rhetoric. This is reality. This is our home. We have built our lives here; and we matter just as much as anyone else in any other county or any other state, despite what some in Washington might otherwise contend. We are not just a place to build through. Our open land has been protected for a reason, and that reason is not for sale. It is staggering that, as we approach 2025, progressive government agencies aligned with corporations, which can spend billions of dollars on green energy policies, can find no alternative for increasing the power supply except by threatening people’s property, scarring the land, and erecting massive, Soviet-style powerlines. Home is everything we are, and Carroll County citizens could not be clearer: this project is not for us. The fight is nowhere close to over, and we will carry our opposition before the Public Service Commission.

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola reiterated that “everyone is innocent until proven guilty” as he responded to comments from Jose Mourinho about winning “cleanly and fairly”. Towards the end of Sunday’s 2-0 loss at Liverpool, Guardiola was subjected to chants that he would be “sacked in the morning” from Reds fans and responded by holding up six fingers, to represent the number of Premier League titles he has won with City. Two days later, when was asked about former Chelsea boss Mourinho holding up three fingers before being axed by Manchester United in 2018, he said: “I hope not in my case. Maybe in the end we are quite similar, (and I’m) like Jose. But he won three, I won six.” City were charged with 115 alleged breaches of top-flight financial rules in February 2023, and with failing to co-operate with the subsequent investigation. The club have denied the charges and an outcome is expected next year. Asked about Mourinho’s remarks at his pre-match press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Crystal Palace, Guardiola said: “It was a joke. But he’s another one in the huge list that they want the team being in, I don’t know, League One or the Conference. “I would say to Jose the same – we are innocent until proven guilty, and after that we will see what happens. It is what it is. It was completely a joke. “I think both with our teams, him with Chelsea, myself with Man City, we can sit at the table with Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger (who won 13 league titles with United and three with Arsenal respectively), right? For the many, many titles we won. “It is another one from the huge list in this country and more around the world that want us at the bottom. “It’s OK, it’s fine. I’ve said many times wait for the sentence and everyone, especially in democracy, is innocent until proven guilty. Right? So we’ll wait, and after we’ll see.” As well as the six league titles, City’s haul of silverware since Guardiola took charge in 2016 includes two FA Cups and four League Cups, and he has also overseen them winning the Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup. Guardiola was asked if he had ever envisaged it being as good as it has been when he arrived at the club, and the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich head coach said: “No. I remember many people say ‘he wins because it’s Barcelona with Leo Messi and the other ones’, I had to prove it in England. OK, we did it.” The result at Anfield was a sixth defeat in a seven-game winless run for City, and fourth league loss in a row – a sequence they then ended with Wednesday’s 3-0 home victory over Nottingham Forest. The champions currently lie fourth, nine points behind Arne Slot’s leaders Liverpool, and Guardiola said: “We broke that bad run. Always it’s not easy when you don’t win for a long time, and now you break it and we have to try to continue with the players, the spirit we show, and we’ll see what happens.” The last two matches have seen Stefan Ortega play in goal, with Ederson on the bench, and asked what the latter had to do to get back in the team, Guardiola said: “He needs the manager to select him. This is what he needs, it’s simple.”Ruben Amorim says Manchester United are a massive club but not a massive team as he continues to try and turn around a group that need to “run like mad dogs” if they are to become winners. A poor start to Erik ten Hag’s third season in charge last month led the Red Devils to turn to the 39-year-old, who immediately lifted the mood after swapping Sporting for Old Trafford. Amorim followed a draw at Ipswich in his opening match with entertaining wins against Bodo/Glimt and Everton, yet he repeatedly attempted to manage expectations. “I think that is very clear,” Amorim said of the scale of the job. “We are a massive club, but we are not a massive team, and we know it. It’s no problem to say it. “So, we want to improve, we are in a different moment from Arsenal, but you could feel it during the game. “I think we have to believe more because we were not dominant in the game, but we had control in the game. “Not so many chances for Arsenal – of course a lot of set pieces – but we were OK, especially in the first half. We had some good things in that moment, but you could feel that there’s so much to do. “I felt that Arsenal had problems to block our build up but then when they were defending the goal it was quite comfortable for them, so we are learning these things and trying to improve in two days.” United’s problems mean they enter the weekend 13th in the Premier League standings – quite the sight for fans of a club who have won an English record 20 league titles. Asked if perceptions around the club need to change, Amorim said: “That will not change because this club has glories in the past. “Our players have to understand that this is a very difficult position, so we are not (one of) the best teams in the league, and we have to say that and to think that clearly. Ruben Amorim is focusing on fixing the small details (John Walton/PA) “If you think in everything, it will be a problem. Let’s focus on the small details and then we will improve it as a team.” Amorim has had precious little time to work on such details having started during an international break followed by a relentless winter schedule. Saturday’s home game against Forest is United’s third of nine matches in December and came with a demand for effort on top of technical quality. “It’s impossible to win the Premier League without a team like that – that every moment runs back, runs forward,” Amorim said. “It is impossible to win. If you want to win, we have to do it. “Even with the best starting XI in the planet without running they will not win nothing, so that is very clear. “If we want to win the Premier League, we have to run like mad dogs. If not, we are not going to win.” Ruben Amorim wants a more physical United (Martin Rickett/PA) “It doesn’t matter about the system,” the former United manager said. “It has to do with the characteristics of the players and we don’t have many, with all the respect, mad dogs – the ones who bite the ball all the time and press all the time. We don’t have many with that spirit.” Amorim will hope not to be feeling similar after facing Forest, having previously said he needs to improve the “physical aspect of the team”. “The problem to be fit enough is if they can cope with that,” United’s head coach said. “If they are used to do that in training, they will do that in games. “So, they are professional athletes, they can improve this. You cannot be faster, but you can run more with training. We are in that path.”

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