A council has left officers in control to progress with a controversial incinerator project on the Teesworks site near Grangetown . The “hamstrung” Labour Cabinet weighed up their options at a public meeting on Thursday, October 30.

Members clarified that even if Redcar and Cleveland Council withdrew from the proposals, the Cabinet couldn't stop the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TVERF) being built, as the other six regional councils involved in the £2bn project would proceed.

While there are £878,000 costs associated with pulling out and the wider TVERF continuing, the financial projection would be worse if the project were to fall apart following the council's withdrawal, as costs could rack up to millions and be put at the local authority's doorstep, bankrupting it in t

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