incinerator. The project has progressed too far to be abandoned now. Aside from that, Bermuda really has no alternative. There is no room on this tiny island for more undesirable land-fill and Pembroke Marsh is full to overflowing.

As the Premier, Sir John Swan, has said, "Pembroke Marsh has long reached saturation in terms of taking much more garbage. We must now remove that scourge of local people. They have been tolerant because the Government has given them an understanding that we would act towards putting a park there.

"People must be allowed to lead a normal life. We have an obligation to the local people and the people of Bermuda.'' We think that's a good argument and a very human argument for getting rid of Pembroke Dump and freeing its neighbourhood of the smoke, flies and stench the people in that area have endured for endless years.

Land fill anywhere else would only create another dump very similar to Pembroke Dump. We cannot dump our garbage in the sea and no-one else will accept our garbage. Recycling is already becoming a part of the waste management plan of which the incinerator is also a part.

The very expensive incinerator is being built, like it or not. The incinerator has, of course, been made more expensive by millions and millions of dollars inflation resulting from objections to the plans. There are people who are quite angry that objections led to huge increases in the incinerator's cost to the taxpayer and that there are still suggestions that the project should be abandoned.

The problem is that objections from Pembroke West Central MP Mr. Stuart Hayward were seen as politically rather than environmentally motivated. We think Government dug its heels in and refused to budge on such additions to the incinerator as environmentally desirable scrubbers when it decided Mr.

Hayward was politically motivated. The result was that Mr. Hayward, virtually shunned by two Ministers of Works and frustrated by the decision to push ahead with the incinerator, was unable to achieve much of anything except hugely increased incinerator costs to the people.

Bermuda is going to have an incinerator about which there are still questions.

People who are very knowledgeable in the field are concerned about the absence of scrubbers. There are very grave concerns that the incinerator will leach into the Devonshire water lens. Many people have doubts about whether or not Government will adequately monitor the environmental performance of the incinerator. And there are more concerns which will grow as the time comes for the incinerator to go into action.

Common sense tells everyone that we are going to have this incinerator and that Bermuda deserves the safest incinerator it can get. The Tynes Bay project is now beyond politics because it is fast becoming a reality. We think the public needs to be reassured about what the safeguards are and how the incinerator is to work.