New tax for £60m sewage works?

ISLANDERS could be saddled with a yet another tax to pay for a new multi-million-pound sewage treatment works.

Transport Minister Kevin Lewis says that a modern plant is now needed to safeguard the environment from harmful pollutants – a major States project expected to cost between £40 million and £60 million.

No cash has yet been allocated for such a scheme and politicians are looking at a sewerage tax, which could be levied like water rates. Guernsey, in common with several other jurisdictions, already has a sewerage tax, even though it does not yet have a sewage treatment works.

John Rogers, the chief officer at Transport and Technical Services, said that the most likely site for a new plant was where the recycling centre is at Bellozanne. He said that it could extend down to where the old incinerator now stands.
(from JEP)

guernsey is already paying trotts toilet tax...the states are talking sh** in the chamber today as they are discussing whether guernsey needs full sewage treatment..