The ESA’s Jacob Hayler on a potential UK EfW moratorium, should Barclay stay at DEFRA and why landfill tax fraud is “creating a huge distortion” in the market

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The Burning Issue

ENDS Waste & Bioenergy

30 episodes

8 months ago

Every fortnight the Burning Issue looks at different elements of the energy recovery sector.

Presented by Luke Walsh, the editor of endswasteandbioenergy.com, the show interviews leading figures in the energy recovery sector and aims to investigate where the sector is now and where does it go from here.

Luke became interested in waste management while working on a bin lorry one summer in Essex. The team he was with collected commercial waste and dumped it in a huge landfill in Pitsea, with no attempt to sort or recycle it.

Looking out over the landfill Luke thought this was the wrong approach and started writing about environmental issues and reporting on the energy-from-waste sector, which he believes is the best solution for waste that can’t be recycled. But is this still the case?

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Every fortnight the Burning Issue looks at different elements of the energy recovery sector.

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The ESA’s Jacob Hayler on a potential UK EfW moratorium, should Barclay stay at DEFRA and why landfill tax fraud is “creating a huge distortion” in the market

The Burning Issue

25 minutes 19 seconds

1 year ago

The ESA’s Jacob Hayler on a potential UK EfW moratorium, should Barclay stay at DEFRA and why landfill tax fraud is “creating a huge distortion” in the market

EWB editor Luke Walsh talks ESA executive director Jacob Hayler as the development and future of the UK’s energy-from-waste sector is thrown into the air by the government’s controversial block on new environmental permits.

This episode focuses on:

Could an EfW moratorium be in Labour’s general election manifesto
“Political interference” in the permitting process
Should DEFRA minister Steve Barclay resign?
Government has spread investor concern over the entire permitting process
Industry has a “perception that there is a lack of coordination and joined up clarity” within the current government
EA struggling with lack of funds and “too many constraints”
Concerns including EfW in the UK ETS will lead to “carbon tourism or leakage”

Hayler joined the ESA from the city in 2005 as an economist, and has worked to develop market-focused policies that combine environmental and economic sustainability. He also has responsibility at the trade body for policy relating to finance, tax, carbon management, contracts and of course EfW.

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