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This website has been set up to try and prevent the destruction of a 12 hectare site located between Radley and Abingdon. RWE NPower and Oxfordshire County Council between them have concocted a scheme which will destroy a beautiful lake and deprive the community of an essential part of the landscape. The area is rich in bio-diversity and should be protected.Instead 500,000 tonnes of waste fuel ash (PFA) will be dumped here to the detriment of the wildlife and the environment.

The lakes at Radley are considered to be one of the beauty spots of Oxfordshire; the jewel in the crown of the local area. Situated at the bottom of Thrupp Lane, between Radley and Abingdon, they are a haven of peace and tranquility for both people and wildlife. 

"We hope that there will be fireflies and glow-worms at night to guide you and butterflies in hedges and forests to greet you.  We hope that your dawns will have an orchestra of bird song and that the sound of their wings and the opalescence of their colouring will dazzle you.   We hope that there will still be the extraordinary varieties of creatures sharing the land of the planet with you to enchant you and enrich your lives as they have done for us.   We hope that you will be grateful for having been born into such a magical world."

So said Gerrald Durrell.

"The effect of making positive use of a by-product is to turn it from an otherwise potential waste into a valuable resource. This allows the need for disposal to be reduced to a minimum and offsets the continual reduction of land available for tipping. the Power Station is also able to reduce its operational costs; these would otherwise increase in terms of physical movement of material, cost of land for disposal and taxation. Disposing of waste material to landfill is becoming less acceptable, thus requiring the minimisation of waste production. "

  So said Didcot Power Station in their "Best Practice Brochure".  Why are they failing to implement their own published policy?

RWE npower, with headquarters in Swindon, is a leading integrated UK energy company. We operate and manage a portfolio of flexible, low cost coal, oil and gas fired power stations using our asset management skills to extract maximum value.
At the other end of the supply chain we have a leading energy retail business – npower, with more than 6 million customer accounts.

So said NPower on their Website.  Note the wording "low cost coal" on Page 5 of the PDF file that will download from this link

We notice that RWE NPower have moved all their pages to which we have links.  However, Google will find them if you want to look for "low cost coal option"

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"PFA has many other uses.  In these it is used either in the form produced at the power station or after processing to obtain suitable fractions.  The different fractions have a range in density, heat-resistance, thermal insulation and composition, which is advantageous in specialised applications which include foundry work, ceramics, plastics, and as drying agents for sludge and similar materials.  New uses for PFA are continually sought and, as improved industrial techniques are developed, further opportunities for PFA will be indentified"

  This is what Didcot Power station said in their "Best Practice Brochure".  Why are they failing to develop these applications?

We learn that NPower's Green Energy  is no longer supported by Greenpeace.

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