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More than £200 million of support for three energy-from-waste projects has been cancelled by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The Bradford and Calderdale, North Yorkshire and City of York, and the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority and Halton projects will not receive waste infrastructure credits from Defra to help the local authorities meet their PFI payments.
The developments were offered £62.1 million, £65 million, and £90 million in PFI credits respectively.
Defra made the decision after analysis showed there was only a 2 per cent fall in the UK’s chance of meeting EU targets for the amount of waste being send to landfill by 2020 – down from 95 per cent to 93 per cent – without the funding.
The department said it was investing £3.6 billion in 29 waste infrastructure projects and that it expects to have “sufficient infrastructure” to meet the EU landfill targets.
A statement from Defra added: “Consequently the decision has been taken not to fund the remaining three projects,” but did say the decision “does not necessarily mean the three projects will stop.”
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