Jessica Eagers-Hardie, the mother of three young boys, confesses to being genuinely terrified. For my children s sake I would do anything I could to stop it, she says. Local feelings about the proposal for a massive waste incinerator at Loganswell Farm, near Newton Mearns, run deep. These plans would put at risk the lives and wellbeing of thousands of children, including my own, just so that one group of men can line their own pockets, argues Eagers-Hardie. We will fight this until the bitter end because there is nothing that could justify jeopardising our children s health. Eagers-Hardie, who lives in Newton Mearns, has helped set up the Facebook protest group, Mums against the Incinerator. She is one of thousands opposing the scheme for a high-temperature gasification plant to treat a million tonnes of commercial and municipal waste a year put forward by Lifetime Recycling Village. The ?640 million plant has succeeded in uniting political parties against it, with Labour s leadership contender, MSP Ken Macintosh, on the same side as the Conservative leadership contender, Jackson Carlaw MSP. Two weeks ago more than 2000 local people turned out for an anti-incinerator protest march. But it is strongly defended by Neil Gallacher, the managing director of Lifetime Recycling Village. Technically, he argues, it will not be an incinerator. It will use thermal treatment in its renewable power station for gasification, not burning, of carefully prepared waste-derived fuel mix for maximum efficiency in generating electricity, he says. It would be unique in Scotland. Environmental safety is central to our proposals.