Jersey incinerator 'cause of air pollution'

The waste incinerator at Bellozanne on Jersey has been blamed for causing air pollution, a survey of islanders has claimed.

Although a majority of respondents to an online survey conducted by the island's planning and environment department said that Jersey's air quality was good, the ageing incinerator plant was pointed out as a major pollutant.

Jersey States deputy Rob Duhamel told the BBC: "There are concerns around certain sources of pollution and there is a clear desire for regular information on air quality."

It has been suggested that a new waste-to-energy plant may be built at La Collette at an estimated cost of £100 million, and a Jersey Evening Post report claimed in 2008 that the Bellozanne plant could never run at full capacity again.

Professor Adrian Dumaid claimed in a letter printed in the same newspaper last February that the delay in closing the "filthy old plant" was a "disaster".