5:10pm Wednesday 28th July 2010
THE letter from Mr Ramsey, of Brunner Mond, regarding the expected traffic flow to the proposed incinerator plant raises more questions than it answers.
Has Brunner Mond had an independent environmental and social impact assessment completed?
Has Brunner Mond had a report from Railtrack confirming it can handle the expected additional rail traffic?
With regard to road traffic numbers, is 262 two-way movements per day actually 524 additional vehicle movements, 262 going in and 262 coming out each day?
Is the 3.35 per cent increase in traffic based upon the number of traffic movements actually on Griffiths Road or upon the traffic movements at the A556 roundabout?
Is the 3.35 per cent based upon 262 vehicles or 524 vehicles?
What is clear to me and a lot of others I believe is that transporting 600,000 tonnes of waste from all over the north west by road and possibly rail, cannot be called sustainable.
Is it really logical to transport waste from Manchester to the Runcorn plant, as is planned and then transport waste from Runcorn and Liverpool to a Northwich plant?
Each area should be responsible for its own waste disposal.
If that means a small incinerator in the area to deal with our local waste, so be it, but not waste by road or rail from all over the northwest.
MIKE COULTAS Birches Lane, Lostock
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