Sydney waste incinerator should be binned, department says
by Anne Davies from on (#3ME8H)
Dial A Dump's waste-to-energy generation project likely to be put on hold until after NSW election due to pollution fears
A planned major waste incinerator and energy plant for western Sydney - the largest in the southern hemisphere - is likely to be put on ice until after the New South Wales election next March after the Department of Planning recommended against the project.
The director-general of the department is about to issue a negative assessment, saying that on the advice of Environmental Protection Authority, NSW Health and independent experts, the department had concluded it was inconsistent with the NSW EPA's energy from waste policy statement (2015), and the air quality impacts and risk to human health were unknown.