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Waste strategy 'an epic blunder' says deputy

A VALE deputy said Public Services has not entirely persuaded him that the 600% increase in the export waste strategy's capital costs was 'anything other than an epic blunder'.

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A VALE deputy said Public Services has not entirely persuaded him that the 600% increase in the export waste strategy's capital costs was 'anything other than an epic blunder'.

States Assembly and Constitution Committee chairman Matt Fallaize, pictured, was speaking after attending a PSD presentation to deputies that was aimed at explaining the increased infrastructure cost of the proposed export-based waste strategy from £3.5m. to £24m.

'I tend to think they would be better just to acknowledge that some of what was presented to the States in February 2012 was deeply flawed and inadequate.'

But he added that the department had put a 'credible and persuasive' case that their preferred waste policy remained better than the alternatives.

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