• The plan to build a new incinerator near the town of Šaľa has been accompanied by protests from the beginning.
• This year, Budaj's department issued an approving opinion, but it is not yet legally binding. The department registers 30 appeals.
• The investor says that the waste incinerator will be crucial in the Nitra region, as landfilling is to be abandoned.
• In addition to construction in the south-west of Slovakia, the company also has plans for other locations

The local problems here are similar to those in other parts of the country. Šaľa in the south-west of Slovakia has been demanding for many years bypass, which would lighten traffic. In addition to road construction, the planned waste incinerator, which the investor - the company Ewia, wants to build near the city - has become the subject of discussions in recent years. From the beginning, the activists who wrote the petition did not like these steps. The investor, on the other hand, has been reassuring for years that such handling of waste has a minimal impact on the environment. It promises that, in addition to processing waste, it will also produce heat and electricity. The Department of Environment of Ján Budaj recently took an important step in the project. The plan for 120 million euros has thus moved forward. In mid-January, Envirorezort approved the variant, which is finally further from Šala, but closer to the village of Močenok.

This is a first-instance decision. "We will wait for the legality of the decision and then we will see. Like every big project, this one also has its opponents and supporters," he tells HN star...