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  • "I feel I must add a comment here in support of Marbury councillors Malcolm Byram, Norman Wright and Don Hammond. They have always been vociferous in their opposition to the incinerator application and have also helped financially. There are also other local CWAC councillors who have helped in this way. I would like to stress that these councillors want to continue to help in the fight to keep the incinerator out of the town.Unfortunately the Leader of CWAC Council does not appear to have the same "mind set" and although CHAIN and SID are hoping to challenge the decision by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to allow the construction of the incinerator to go ahead, to finance representation by a Q.C. is extremely costly. Without any financial help from CWAC Council the only way to move forward is to ask local residents for financial help, but it would be a bill of many, many thousands of pounds. If we want to continue the fight, then we, the local people, need to dig deep in order help CHAIN and SID finance the services of Q.C. Anthony Crean.
    Surely it cannot be right to have a 600,000 tonnes waste incinerator in the midst of a residential area. I feel very strongly that CWAC Council members, and let us not forget that they were elected by us, should have a duty of care towards local residents. In our fight against the incinerator they should be our vanguard. This Council needs to do what is right for the people of Northwich. Give us a voice, and a very loud voice at that !!"
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Money will either buy defibrillator or fight incinerator for Northwich

3:50pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Gina Bebbington

Some Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) members have agreed to donate cash from their members’ budgets to challenge Government approval for a waste plant in Lostock Some Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) members have agreed to donate cash from their members’ budgets to challenge Government approval for a waste plant in Lostock

A LIFESAVING defibrillator will be given to residents of a Northwich village if councillors do not help fund a legal battle.

Some Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) members have agreed to donate cash from their members’ budgets to challenge Government approval for a waste plant in Lostock.

But if this does not go ahead, CWAC councillors for Marbury want to buy Barnton a defibrillator.

Clrs Malcolm Byram and Norman Wright, who represent the Marbury ward alongside Clr Don Hammond, explained the situation at the latest Barnton Parish Council meeting.

“We’ve agreed to support a defibrillator in Great Budworth and we’re looking at one in Barnton,” Clr Byram said.

“The cost is from £700 to £1,200 and I would suggest that eventually you would want two.”

Clr Wright said: “It all depends on the Tata inquiry and whether we are going to fund that or not.”

Cheshire Anti Incinerator Network (CHAIN) has been leading the campaign against plans for an energy from waste plant in Griffiths Road, submitted by Tata Chemicals Europe and E.ON.

These proposals were initially rejected by CWAC but then given the go-ahead by the Government in October, following a public inquiry.

After taking legal advice, CWAC decided not to challenge this result as a body, prompting CHAIN to seek its own advice from QC Anthony Crean.

After being informed it had a ‘strong case’ CHAIN started to fundraise for a judicial review and appealed for CWAC members to donate some of their individual £10,000 members’ budgets, which are to be spent on worthy local projects.

The aim of a village defibrillator would be for it to be publicly accessible at all times.

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