South Wales Evening Post - 11 March 2006
Despite the high cost of taking the city's rubbish by road to landfills in Pembrokeshire and Merthyr Tydfil, said a council spokeswoman this week, there are no plans to use the incinerator at Neath Port Talbot. Since it would be a much cheaper option, we should be told why not.
If the council has evidence of environmental problems caused by the incinerator, then the people living in its shadow should be told what they are.
If - and I suspect this is the real reason - it is a political decision not to use the incinerator, then it should say so.
Council tax payers in the city may fully support that stance, but they should not be left in the dark about why their money is being spent sending lorry loads of waste across South and West Wales.
