A Case of Success: Pusztazámor
The first email arrived at the beginning of February: in Pusztazámor, a sewage sludge incinerator was to be built, with a capacity of 20 000 to 120 000 tons per year. The local government had published the plan only one week before, and the 4th of March had been appointed as the day for the referendum. The majority of the representatives had decided to support the proposal. The status of the land had already been reassigned from agricultural to industrial usage. Is it possible to stop an investment of this sort in a month? The answer given by the residents of Zámor is 'yes'. The main problem in the case did not lie with the technology but the official procedure. The public was expected to make a decision about the incinerator without an environmental impact assessment or any meaningful official information.
