A local protest group is formed up, and support is pouring in from national movements against incineration.
Bolton And Dearne – Habitants Against Recycling at Manvers (BAD-HARM) was created to protest against a waste management facility being constructed in the area, something they deem as 'wholly inappropriate'.
An early meeting was attended by a crown of more than 200 and another is planned for Wednesday, September 30 at 7.30pm in the Angel pub at Bolton-upon-Dearne.
The site, off Bolton Road, is overlooked by properties in Bolton-upon-Dearne, Adwick-upon-Dearne, Wath-upon-Dearne and Mexborough.
It is bordered on two sides by landscaped former brownfield land that was encompassed by the Trans Pennine Trail park.
The group South Yorkshire Against Incineration has thrown its weight behind the campaign, while the UK Without Incineration Network has expressed its desire to get involved.
Residents in Adwick-upon-Dearne – much of which overlooks the site – are devastated by the plan.
Parish councillor in the village Jim Longstaff labelled the scheme "ludicrous" and vowed to fight it all the way.
He said: "After getting rid of the blot of Manvers, they've landscaped it all down there, with the Trans-Pennine Trail and the Dearne Valley Park – and now they're going to stick that in it. It doesn't make sense, it's ludicrous.
"My back garden looks out over it. In that direction it's never been the best view because the pit and coking plant were down there.

But at least with that you knew it was employing so many local men.
This plant will employ an handful and they don't take them from the local area because they know people who work there will get stick for it."
Mr Longstaff is also concerned about emissions blowing over Mexborough School, which also overlooks Bolton Road.
He went on: "There's a 35-metre height differential between the land they are want to build the plant on, and where Mexborough School is on the hill. And the prevailing wind comes down the Dearne Valley straight up there.
"They've spent £23m on that school and now it's going to be looking down over that with a big chimney in its back garden. It's within 1,200 metres of the site."
"And the people of Highwoods, Mexborough, will have it right in their faces. They don't seem to have caught on to this yet."
"What the authorities need to do is stop supermarkets producing all the waste in the first place. If you wanted to make paint with lead in it, they'd stop you."
Mr and Mrs Oxley who live in Coronation Cottages in the village are also concerned emissions being blown towards their home.
Mr Oxley said: "They call this bit of the village where we live along here 'windy city' because we're right on the ridge where the prevailing winds come up and they'll be coming up from where that plant will be".
His wife added: "I really think if the councils want to do something, they'll do it, and there's not a lot we can do.
"We've complained about things in the past like the buses and the footpaths but nothing has been done.
"But we don't want it down there. All the lorries that will be coming in, where will they go?
"When they did all the landscaping work down there, they used to come through the village when they shouldn't because the bridge only takes seven and a half tonnes. Are they going to stick to the main roads?"
Fellow protester Mick Marsden feels the location of the site is a cynical choice to off-load any blame.
He said: "This is being dumped on the Dearne Valley because it is sufficiently far away from the doorsteps of Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley" more>>

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Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Councils have signed an agreement that commits all three authorities to work together to deal with what officials call the "waste challenge".
The BDR group, as it is known, joined together in a bid to attract Government funding and recently announced that it had been awarded £77.4m to buy waste disposal technology from a private firm.

Three sites have been selected to market to possible contractors, including one in Grange Lane, Rotherham, another in Bolton Road on the site of the former Manvers colliery and a site in Doncaster which cannot be named for "commercial reasons".  '9 months before any limited local consultation Bolton Road had taken place.. the site had been chosen'

However, waste project director Geoff Birkett said a solution was still two years away and added that "several technologies" were in the running for the "final treatment" process.
Rumours about a huge incineration plant and conjecture about where it might be sited have been circulating for several months, but project managers said no decision had yet been made.
And they were keen to stress that "residual waste" – refuse that cannot be economically recycled – had to be dealt with if councils were to avoid swingeing Government landfill fines.
Susan Upton, Barnsley Council's assistant director, waste management, said Westminster targets for reducing landfill were extremely tough and required more public effort on recycling.
She added: "At present the three authorities produce 463,079 tonnes of municipal waste. Under the Government's Landfill Allowance the amount that can go to landfill will sharply decrease. Unless we hit those targets there are some very severe financial penalties. In 10 years' time the three authorities will be permitted to send just 89,000 tonnes of waste to landfill."
Recycling rates have rocketed from 5.7 per cent in 2002-3 to 19 per cent in 2007-8 and it is hoped that in the next two years a target of 50 per cent can be achieved across the BDR area.
Mr Birkett said efforts would then be made to pull out further recyclable materials at waste transfer stations, minimising the amount of refuse to be dealt with in the final treatment process.
He added: "It is superb what has already been achieved with recycling, but we must continue to boost the amount of waste that is recycled and composted to reduce the amount of residual waste.
"But if you can't recycle it, you have to do something with it and some of the technologies we are examining will give us additional benefit from that residual waste in the form of energy or heat."

Mr Birkett admitted that most waste disposal technologies did have some form of "burn" process, but said even if that approach was adopted there would be no chimneys "belching smoke".

He also said there would be a benefit in terms of jobs and revealed that the total cost of the project might rack up to about £650m over the next 25 years.
In a separate project, called the waste development plan document, the councils have been asked to identify sites that are suitable for treatment of waste.
Lead planning officer Stephen Butler said the three being marketed to private waste contractors were on the list but more than 30 were still also being considered.
Mr Butler said: "We are now on the third round of consultation and have whittled the list down to 35 across the BDR area. The final plan should give us three large sites supported by a network of smaller sites."
For more information on waste sites in the boroughs log on to www. doncaster.gov.uk/wastedpd. Consultation closes on December 12th 2008. 7  Months before meeting a Wath!