Premier Waste - BBC TV programme
On Friday evening last, BBC North East put out a programme making allegations against Premier Waste in relation to the disposal of Compost Like Waste (CLO) at the Todhills Landfill Site and the operations of the company’s aerobic digestors at Thornley.
I had been sent an e-mail by Councillor Albert Nugent, Leader of the Council earlier last week alerting me to the fact that the programme was to be screened adn responding to some of the allegations, although at that point the Council had not seen what the BBC was to screen on Friday.
Now Premier Waste is an arms-length company owned by the County Council. The Council is its one and only shareholder and I think that as its shareholder, the Council should investigate these allegations properly, and there is a formal way to do this using the Overview and Scrutiny (O & S) Committee.
So I am writing today to the Chair of O & S Committee, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the “Looking after the Environment” Scrutiny Subcommittee asking for an investigative panel to be set up as a matter of urgency to deal with this.
I will let you know their response as soon as I have it.
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