Brent Cross Balloons and Inflatable Dinosaur Flown in Warning of Toxic Emissions
On Friday 23rd April 2010 Friends of the Earth Brent, Barnet & Enfield and Camden local groups flew an inflatable flying dinosaur, the “Brentcrossasaurus”, and released balloons at Clitterhouse Playing fields in Cricklewood. Continue reading »
Halton Action Group Against the Incinerator (HAGATI) have been co-operating with the Health Protection Agency & Lancaster University to commission a study on the downwind health effects of Incinerators.
According to HAGATI’s Alan Gorry:
It is hoped that this study will either validate the work of Michael Ryan, which has been rejected by the permitting authorities, or at the very least provide some re-assurance to all those who are so concerned with this important aspect of Incineration.
While the cost of the study is expected to be a very modest £10,000 this is beyond the means of HAGATI. However as the study will be something that will greatly benefit everyone throughout the UK where there are existing or proposed Incinerators, we are appealing for donations.
Transition King’s Lynn (TKL) is about taking positive steps to foster resilience in local communities and having fun doing it!
TKL are getting behind a campaign to oppose plans to build a waste incinerator plant in King’s Lynn.
Watch this space…
A Public Exhibition, organised by Worcestershire residents Against Incineration and Landfill (WAIL) will take place on Friday 9th April (2 pm – 8 pm) and Saturday 10th April (10 am – 4 pm). On display will be answers to the most commonly asked questions about planning, legal, technical and other issues associated with incineration. All are welcome, and refreshments are promised!
An excerpt from the March 2010 edition of the WAIL newsletter, available from the recently launched Worcestershire residents Against Incineration and Landfill website:
Following the very successful public meeting when 400 people crammed into the Village Hall, many of you may feel that little is happening. In fact there is a massive amount of work being undertaken by the group chosen to lead this campaign on your behalf, but until now it has not been possible to reveal our plans. Our new
group has been formed under the banner of Worcestershire residents Against Incineration and Landfill (WAIL). The title has been chosen because this is simply not a local problem – in one form or another the whole of Worcestershire will be affected. In reality we do not believe that there is a genuine and credible case to be made for incineration (or Energy from Waste as it is euphemistically described). There are also serious questions to be answered about the proposed location in addition to the often voiced concerns relating to emissions and health.
The site is acknowledged to be in the Green Belt and from a legal and planning view point contrary to the Wychavon District Local Plan 2006. The sheer size and scale of the proposed incinerator will dwarf the existing buildings on what is effectively a Trading Estate. At a stroke this proposed development would transform our rural location into an industrial zone!
We are now at the point where we can commence our official campaign in earnest against this monstrous and totally unnecessary development.
We shall be holding future events and public exhibitions in order to demonstrate not only the potentially devastating and harmful effect this could have on our own area, but also the inevitable long term costs in very many ways to be suffered by the whole of the County.
Please look out for these events and also for ways in which you can support our campaign. For the very real benefit of us all we must be successful. We need everyone’s support!
Yours
Terry Harrop
CHAIRMAN
GAIA’s hard-working Neil Tangri has circulated an round-up covering a variety of climate-change-related topics, including the following Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) update: Continue reading »
Halton Action Group Against The Incinerator (HAGATI) Objection to Environmental Permit Application EPR/EP3731XL/A001
The HAGATI objection is in three parts, Part One is our attempt to prove that the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is not fit for purpose.
The reasoning is, that both the Primary Care Trust and the Health Protection Agencies are provided with copies of the HIA for their comments. If we can prove that the HIA cannot be used in any assessment of the potential effects of the incinerator it lends weight to our request for a full Environmental Justice Audit, which is one of the Sections in our main objection.
Part Two, the Main Objection, is in seventeen separate sections. You will also notice that there is some repetition in this part.
This is because the way in which the objection is dealt with by the Environment Agency is that the Objection is split into smaller sections for individual departments to deal with and we did not want, for example, the chimney height to be investigated in isolation without the knowledge of the existing poor health records of the residents on to whom the pollution will fall.
We would like to believe that each of these sections could provide a stand alone reason to refuse the permit application but are convinced that the holistic view must be that their combination provides an undeniable argument.
Part three is our comments on the Appendices which accompanied the
Application and is a critique of both the data and methodology employed by RPS the consultants who prepared the Application for Ineos.
Download Part One [PDF]
Download Part Two [PDF]
Download Part Three [PDF]
Since the preparation of our Objection documentation several new facts came to light. These have been sent to the Environmental Law Foundation who are our legal representatives and these extra issues and concerns will be submitted as addendum to the Objection.
If anyone wants a copy of this extra information please contact me on jeff meehan@ntlworld.com
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