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Comment on Crodyon/Sutton campaigners march and lay wreath of rubbish by Dr.S.Prokop

Dr.S.Prokop — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:54:55 +0000

The manipulation of air quality data by local councils planning to agree new-build incineration has reached a new low. Beddington Lane is a long road lorries to the landfill site use now, and build and incinerator lorries will use in the future. It is crossed by a tram, with side roads that are quiet.Its pollution levels ( measured by the tram crossing site [A]),before recent increases in traffic, merited an AQMA designation.Here is the sequence of events:
1.use a glue lorry to reduce measurements at A
2.close A completely and replace it by a side road “industrial” monitor 100 ft from the lorry road..but keep the names the same.
3.The air is now “clean”,and the extra incinerator traffic will not now be counted by anyone.

Letter to the local paper:

Closing Troublesome Monitoring Stations

Dear Sir,
If you can’t get the air cleaner you can close the station that counts how dirty it is ! Sutton Council has a habit of closing air quality monitoring stations that are giving the “wrong” results.The last one they “disappeared” was just outside the playground of Robin Hood Primary school, next to the £600,000 bus stop !
Not satisfied with importing a lorry that has been described as a “public health fraud on an industrial scale” to glue some of the particles to the road, it has just closed the station whose readings meant that Beddington Lane had to be declared an air quality management area…..just before incinerator plans blossom and traffic increases still more.
Recent reports have shown that new regulations have increased the number of “high” readings near waste transfer stations, and the weight of traffic around the site will increase with build and waste delivery.So the powers that be have closed the tram crossing site in Beddington Lane,that would count the lorries and opened a new one, 100 ft from the road in a quiet bit of Prologis Park. Just putting a bus lane between traffic in Marylebone Road and the monitor dropped the readings dramatically in that hotspot,so expect “clean air” in Beddington Lane from now on. How low can you get ! ?

Does anyone know if there is a body to which I can write an official complaint?

Comment on UKWIN Annotated Version of the NPPF by Dr.S.Prokop

Dr.S.Prokop — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:26:56 +0000

As incinerator developers are being driven into a cul de sac by the growing national understanding of air pollution (London’s in particular),they are saying that incinerators “contribute a small amount in the context”.They like to omit the gaseuos discharges altogether.They omit that created by the lorries in and out.What research are they basing “small” on? Paris research suggests that it is not small….any help?
please see excellent short presentation….(I am not a salesman!) but get the gizmo:

http://bit.ly/Jp3u6L

There is a long tail of nanos which it measures.They probably carry much,if not all, the toxicity (LA mice).See the extent of this unmeasured and under reported problem:

http://cleanairinlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PC18_060412_Smog-episodes-with-times1.pdf

Comment on Lincolnshire (LAIA): April 2008 Update by Kath Fallon

Kath Fallon — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:08:30 +0000

I am trying to set up a food waste collection fo businesses in Lincolnshire, can you advise whether this is something that would interest anyone out there?

thanks

Comment on An IBA document that is worth a read! by Simon Rines

Simon Rines — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:32:42 +0000

Just to let you know that Buckfastleigh, the town that Neil Smith is campaigning in went to the polls on Thursday 1 March. The official Parish Poll asked the residents if they wanted the IBA plant in their town. On a very high turnout of 49.76%, 95% said NO!

Great news and hopefully enough to get this kicked out!

Comment on Veolia in share price dive by mike

mike — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:18:10 +0000

I managed a Household Waste Recycling Centre in Nottinghamshire Contracted by Veolia.
Management were rubbish …parden the pun……systems were rubbish and even though we held the UK record for recycling at such a facility it didnt satisfy them…………. we are now divorced

Comment on Veolia in share price dive by a smith

a smith — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:17:07 +0000

i am a violia worker hgv driver recling in west berkshire in the new padworth set up how has violia lasted so long no organisation a compleat shambles every day west berks is a big area we got old trucks its run by managment as 3 i say 3 diferent compoenys black bins greenwaste witch is a unbelivable joke as for recling how can a truck witch picks up 3 tons some less each round 900 properties top bosess drive bmws merks pluss come down and see as a share holder violia are a nightmare so badly orginised

Comment on An IBA document that is worth a read! by Mick Bee

Mick Bee — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:21:52 +0000

Stunning and timely document which will be useful to many campaigns. Many thanks, Neil Smith.

Note – Here in Herts Veolia have added an MPT line to their New Barnfield plan that will “recover recyclable materials from the incoming waste prior to the combustion of nonrecyclable,
residual waste”. They claim it will recycle an additional 28,000tpa (out of 350,000t !). They also claim that it will, at a stroke, improve our municipal recycling rate by 3% – from 49% (260,000t from total 540,000t) to a massive 52% (I know the sums don’t work!).

Comment on Whistleblower: Bolton incinerator should close by Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority « patricktsudlow

Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority « patricktsudlow — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:43:32 +0000

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Comment on HPA confirm plans for incineration health study by Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:29:07 +0000

Here’s text of e-mail sent to my MP (Daniel Kawczynski) earlier today:

“Have you seen your name in Stroud News & Journal incinerator article of 1 Feb 2012??‏

Dear Mr Kawczynski,

Here’s link for Stroud N&J article:

http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/9506116.Legal_challenge_to_block_incinerator_project_fails/

The letters page of same issue has one of mine in which I’ve criticised both the HPA and the Environment Agency and also the rationale for the proposed study into “birth outcomes” around incinerators.

Anyone who has ever had dealings with “modelling” of data will understand that:

“Good practice stars with a concept review, whereby an expert panel meets to recommend the
best modelling approach. Data are then collected and the model constructed, calibrated and tested.
The expert panel should judge whether the model is generating realistic results. If not, it may undergo further calibration, or more data input, or else the modelling approach should be changed.”

(“Computer analysis models: the growing over-reliance”, Civil Engineering Volume 165, Issue CE1, February 2012)

Dr Prokop, whose blog is above mine on this website, is a also aware of the shortcomings of the HPA’s incinerator study.

http://ukwin.org.uk/2012/01/25/hpa-confirm-plans-for-incineration-health-study/#more-3094

Note that when local anti-incinerator group at Shrewsbury showed my Coventry map at a Veolia liaison meeting a few years

ago, Veolia’s agent (falsely) claimed that the 2nd most common wind direction in Shrewsbury was from the North East.

Here’s link for windrose at Shawbury:

http://www2.bridgnorth-dc.gov.uk/PlanningDocuments/12881_18.pdf

I hope Nick Hall was able to “shoot him down” in that one!

Maybe the Veolia chappie thought that NW was the same as NE?

Kind regards,

Michael Ryan

Comment on HPA confirm plans for incineration health study by Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:25:50 +0000

Justin McCracken, CEO of the Health Protection Agency, was unfortunate to start his job when my FoI request of 31 March 2008 was in his “too hard” tray. I’d asked for a list of all the incinerators around which the HPA had examined rates of illness & rates of premature deaths at electoral ward level to determine whether or not there was harm to health – by comparing upwind-v-downwind rates.

I’d made the above request because in August 2003, the HPA promised to check health data around incinerators & landfill sites & I thought that five years was long enough for even the HPA to do a couple of days work.

Mr McCracken chose to ignore my request and when faced with prospect of Information Commissioner forcing disclosure, he sent a backdated letter to “cross” with mine – but he forgot to tell the postroom to alter the setting on the franking machine.

Those in the Surrey area might recall articles in both the Surrey Mirror and also the Dorking Advertiser on 22 May 2008 reporting the fact that the HPA hadn’t bothered to check any health data around any incinerator.

Also, in 2007, several newspapers had reported my research using ONS data to examine infant death rates in London’s electoral wards and on 5 Aug 2007, I e-mailed this map to Professor Paul Elliott, the very same geezer in Dr Prokop’s post above. When you look at this map, bear in mind that I had no idea that Reichhold had an incinerator in Cricket Green ward (Merton Borough), which is one of the high infant death wards in the H7 group:

http://www.ukhr.eu/mapa4.pdf

Here’s a few maps I’ve prepared since then:

http://www.ukhr.eu/incineration/coventrymap.pdf

http://ukhr.eu/incineration/sheffield/sheffieldrotherhammap.pdf

http://www.ukhr.eu/incineration/tyseley.pdf

http://www.ukhr.eu/incineration/kirkleesarea.pdf

http://www.ukhr.eu/incineration/southstaffswolverhampton.pdf

http://www.ukhr.eu/incineration/kirklees.pdf

http://ukhr.eu/incineration/Stroud_News%26Journal_maps.pdf