People power - how one family’s fight against a waste incinerator plant ended in victory

Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill talks to one family who lived close to a Belgian incinerator for more than two decades.

FOR MORE than 20 years Fred De Baere and his wife Kristine lived close to the state-owned waste incinerator in the Flemish town of Sint Niklaas in northern Belgium.

The plant, with a capacity to burn 55,500 tonnes of waste, was just part of the landscape and Fred thought little of it when he moved to the area in 1977.