Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application

Debate contribution by Dr Steve Aiken OBE on 18 November 2024.

MLA: Dr Steve Aiken OBE
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 18 November 2024
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4656182

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I thank the — well, I think that I thank the Minister for his response. The issue, Minister, for everybody in the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council area and the rest of it and, indeed, for his own MLAs, who have sat with me on platforms about Arc21 and what it has been doing about the Hightown incinerator, is the issue that has been there all the way through: there is no grid connection, no business case and no reason for this to be built where it is.

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 1139/22-27.

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