§ Ms EagleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the(a) cement kilns and (b) lime kilns at each plant in the UK combusting (i) coal alone, (ii) coal in combination with petroleum coke, (iii) coal in combination with solvent waste, (iv) coal in combination with other high calorific wastes, (v) petroleum coke alone, (vi) petroleum coke in combination with solvent waste, (vii) petroleum coke in combination with other high calorific wastes and (viii) other high calorific wastes alone, showing in each case which other high calorific wastes are being combusted. [11664]
§ Mr. ClappisonI understand from the Environment Agency that the cement kilns and lime kilns in England and Wales burning fuels in the categories listed are:
(a) Cement kilns
- (i) Coal alone
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Plymstock, Devon (also burns coal with petroleum coke)
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Barnstone, Nottinghamshire
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Hope, Derbyshire
- Castle Cement Ltd., Ribblesdale Works, Clitheroe, Lancashire (three kilns) (also authorised to burn coal with petroleum coke in all kilns, though rarely do so, and coal with solvent waste in two kilns)
- (ii) Coal in combination with petroleum coke
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Plymstock, Devon (also burns coal alone)
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Westbury, Wiltshire (two kilns)
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Claydon, Suffolk
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Aberthaw Works, Vale of Glamorgan
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Weardale, Co. Durham
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Northfleet, Kent
- Blue Circle Industries plc, Cauldon, Stoke on Trent (also burns petroleum coke with tyre chips)
- Buxton Lime Industries, Tunstead, Buxton, Derbyshire
- Castle Cement Ltd., Ketton, Lincolnshire (also burns this combination with Cemfuel, and also burns this fuel in combination with Cemfuel and waste tyres)
- Castle Cement Ltd., Padeswood Works, Alyn and Deeside
- Castle Cement Ltd., Ribblesdale Works, Clitheroe, Lancashire (three kilns) (three kilns, though rarely use this fuel. Also authorised to burn coal alone in three kilns and coal with solvent waste in two of the kilns.)
- Rugby Group plc, Chinnor Works, Oxon (three kilns)
- Rugby Group plc, South Ferriby, Barton upon Humber, South Humberside
- Rugby Group plc, Rochester, Kent
- Rugby Group plc, Rugby, Warwickshire
- Rugby Group plc, Southam, Warwickshire (also burns coal with dycal)
- (iii) Coal in combination with solvent waste
- Castle Cement Ltd., Ribblesdale Works, Clitheroe, Lancashire (two kilns) (also burns coal alone in both kilns and coal with petroleum coke)
133 - Rugby Group plc, Southam, Warwickshire (also burns coal with petroleum waste)
No other cement kilns are currently burning any of the other fuels listed.
(b) Lime kilns
- (ii) Coal with petroleum coke
- Buxton Lime Industries, Tunstead, Buxton, Derbyshire
- Redland Aggregates, Whitwell, Worksop, Nottinghamshire (also burns petroleum coke, petroleum coke with solvent waste and coal with petroleum coke and solvent waste)
- (v) Petroleum coke alone
- British Sugar, York (two kilns)
- Redland Aggregates, Whitwell, Worksop, Nottinghamshire (also burns coal with petroleum coke, petroleum coke with solvent waste and coal with petroleum coke and solvent waste)
- Redland Aggregates, Thrislington, Co. Durham (T1 and T2 kilns)
- (vi) Petroleum coke in combination with solvent waste
- Redland Aggregates, Whitwell, Worksop, Nottinghamshire (also burns coal with petroleum coke, petroleum coke alone and coal with petroleum coke and solvent waste)
- Redland Aggregates, Thrislington, Co. Durham (T3 kiln)
No other lime kilns are currently burning any of the other fuels listed.
The information relating to Scotland is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and the information relating to Northern Ireland a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.