Money will either buy defibrillator or fight incinerator for Northwich (From Northwich Guardian)

• "The truth is that comparing the provision of a defibrillator with financing a legal challenge to prevent a potentially toxic incinerator being erected in our town is an invidious exercise. Both are justifiable for different reasons.
  
  I am not qualified to make a detailed case for a defibrillator but what I do say, with absolute certainty, is that it is a scandal that CWAC Council seems intent on abandoning the people of Northwich by not joining forces with local people and their campaign groups, CHAIN and SID, in using the legal process.
  
  This is a criticism is of the Council itself, its leadership and officers, not of individual councillors such as Malcolm Byram and Norman Wright.
  
  If Cheshire East Council had taken the same attitude as CWAC, the builders would have already started digging the foundations for an incinerator in Middlewich.
  
  It is no coincidence that the QC that CHAIN wants to use to put the case for Northwich is the one who successfully represented Middlewich.
  
  The case against the incinerator has been made very often and I will not repeat it here other than to categorically assert that there is nowhere else on the planet where a waste incinerator of the size intended for Northwich, burning 150,000lbs of garbage every single hour, is situated so close to a residential area and urban centre. In effect, the community would become the subjects of a grotesque experiment to see what happens when you build a mega waste incinerator close the centre of a town.
  
  Nobody knows with any degree of certainty what the consequences of that would be on the heath of local children who would have to endure it year after year. Surely the Council does not need more evidence to justify taking up the one last chance to stop it happening."
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