Sir, your report on your front page of last week's TSF about the proposed incinerator in Ayrshire does not make any sense to me!

It states that it burns waste? It does not state household or industrial?

PCBs and dioxins are given off when plastics are burnt. How is the plant going to deal with those poisons, the most deadly known to man?

I find it strange that it was not reported who invested the cash to build the plant, only that Barr is going to run it, and I doubt that they have ever run a plant of this nature before – like a sheep farmer swapping to become a dairy farmer!

As an ex-councillor that sat on planning meetings, one needs to be wary of what is told – we hear about the new jobs, hundreds of them, good for the environment, etc, and these reports will be produced by a PR firm that has courted the council's own reporting officer, so that the 'right' report lands in front of the councillors, so that they can make the right decision!

They say the best route to a man's heart is through his stomach! Hope that this has not happened?

166k tonnes is not all that great – if it was just paper or straw or rags it would easily burn, but the same tonnage in household plastic that cannot be recycled, that's a totally different game. It needs to be burnt at high temperature, so what is the energy source of the plant? Gas, coal, oil?

SEPA has not got the guts to deal with this type of plant. They always turn the blind eye to existing landfield sites – they are only good against the small fry when a cow pees in a stream!

Now, if it was reported that the plant was going to process 666k tonnes that would make sense to me, considering the amount of waste that people generate as Ayrshire has a large footprint of people, and no promise that waste be drawn from the central belt?

“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.”: George Orwell

Angus A Macdonald,

Balivanich,

Benbecula