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Description: | Est in 1996 as a pressure group to monitor problemas cosued by the Elm Energy tyre burning electricity station in Ettingshall Road. The group was made up of community representatives from Ettingshall, Millfields, Priestfields and Parkfields as well of Wolverhampton Friends of the Earth. The Group disbanded c. 1998.
In 1989 on the invitation of the UK government to help alleviate the national problem of scrap tyres, the Elm Energy facility was constructed. The 50million waste tyres-to-electricity plant became the largest electricity generator fuelled with waste or renewable fuels in Britain's Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation-Renewable Energy Order brought about by the privatisation of the electricity industry and market. It disposed of ten million tyres a year, around 20% of the UK's annual scrap total. In 1994 Elm Energy received the AA's Achievement Award for Environmental Concern and the Foreign Investor of the Year Award from Corporate Relocation magazine. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1991 - 2002 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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