Published: 10 February, 2012

• Burning our rubbish is a nice little earner. For this service Islington, along with six other boroughs, will each pay £170m over 25 years.

There are three companies in the race to get their hands on this colossal £1.2bn contract. Today (Friday) one of them will be thrown out.

We hope it will be Veolia.

North London Waste Authority has given very little information on the three tenders. Only two of the bidders included practical solutions to the authority’s objective of combining heat usage in the project, known as CHP. On the other hand, Veolia’s solution is not and could not be CHP.

To confirm this, we researched information from other bodies, including the Infrastructure Planning Commission and the Environment Agency.

Does it surprise anyone that Veolia, which has been accused of profiting from illegal Israeli settlements, shows such disregard for environmental objectives?

Veolia is also bidding to get a £3.5bn contract to process the waste, but the decision on this, involving £500m worth of Islington taxes, will be voted on later this year.

Yael Kahn
Islington Friends of Yibna