I never made the claims TATA QC said I did (From Northwich Guardian)

L Byrne?

If you have never made such a claim, do you not remember writing this?

"If the TATA incinerator is built it will lead to about 30 vehicles per minute, ONE EVERY THREE SECONDS, for many hours of the day. Five days every week plus Saturday mornings. On a narrow single carriageway road through a residential area"

This equates to hundreds of HGV's per hour due to the EfW.

This is a quote of yours made public, so do you still believe you never made such claims?

Would it not be in everyone's interest for Cheshire West and Chester Council to publish the statistics used by the Highways Agency to calculate the amount of traffic that they believe will be travelling along Griffiths Road/King Street? I obtained traffic numbers from all the companies on the Griffiths Road site, both actual and projected, and it seems to me that it is an unacceptably high number of HGVs travelling through a residential area.
If I have access to numbers used by the Highways Agency, I could compare, and maybe even dare to challenge the figures. If the Highways Agency have no objection to the numbers of HGVs passing along this road, let the public see what these numbers are. It is not enough just to say that they have no objection.We need to know the amount of traffic that they have no objection to. If the Council are not prepared to make this data available, perhaps an application under the Freedom of Information Act, might be a way for local residents to get the figures they rightly deserve.

The five week Public Inquiry into the application by Tata and E-on to build an Energy from Waste Incinerator in Lostock finished in November 2011. The Inspector will be passing on her findings and recommendations to the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, in the very near future. The outcome and long term effects on the health of the local population and environment if Mr Huhne gives his seal of approval to the Tata/E-on application is causing untold concern and distress to the local residents.

Crucially, the Health Protection Agency has confirmed that it has commissioned a new study into Incinerator emissions. It is funding the Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London and the Environment Research Group, Kings College London, both part of the MRC-HPA Centre for Envrionment and Health, to carry out the study.

The Study which is scheduled to start in April 2012 will examine the risk to all congenital anomalies. Mr McCracken, HPA Chief Executive, said '.......this study will provide valuable new evidence'.

I feel that this outcome is only posible if it is not limited to congenital anomalies and that the scope of the study is expanded in order to take into account, for instance, respiratory conditions, cancers (especially childhood cancers and associated conditons which may manifest themselves in adulthood) etc. I wuld also like assurances that it is a fully independent study which does not rely on information received from the incinerator operators themselves.

There is a very strong groundswell of opinion in the Northwich region which is against the building of the TATA/
E-on proposed incinerator especially as it became clear at the Public Inquiry that the 600,000 tons of waste a year alone (without the pollution emitted from the stack) which would be brought in by road, would cause further pollution from the exhausts, tyres and brakes of the 264 HGV's that would be required daily. It was stated at the Inquiry by Tata/E-on's health expert that the biggest cause of air pollution was from traffic.

As Cheshire West and Chester Council have also voted against the Tata/E-on proposal to build the Energy from Waste Incinerator in Lostock shouldn't the governments stance on 'Localism' be honoured in this instance?

Recently, it became evident that there is significant concern regarding the pollution which already exists in the Griffiths Road/Mancheste Road area of Lostock when several people reported 'red fog' to the Environment Agency. The statement made by the Environment Agency did not inspire confidence and people remain wary regarding the air quality in the locality at this present time. It is easy for industries to shrug off responsibility because of confounding factors such as several chemical industries in the vicinity for example.

This confounding will, in my opinion, be exacerbated if the incinerator receives the 'green light' from Mr Huhne. It will be made even worse if the incinerator proposed by Covanta for Middlewich is given planning permission because the two incinerator's will be within fifteen miles of each other.

In view of the study being undertaken at the behest of the Health Protection Agency should we not be pressing our Cheshire MP's to exert pressure on parliament, especially Mr Huhne and
Mr Pickles, to invoke the Precautionary Principle and halt any decision on these incinerators, certainly, until the result of the report is known and fully analysed. Anything less would, surely, be a dereliction of duty to the people who elected them.

The five week Public Inquiry into the application by Tata and E-on to build an Energy from Waste Incinerator in Lostock finished in November 2011. The Inspector will be passing on her findings and recommendations to the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, in the very near future. The outcome and long term effects on the health of the local population and environment if Mr Huhne gives his seal of approval to the Tata/E-on application is causing untold concern and distress to the local residents.

Crucially, the Health Protection Agency has confirmed that it has commissioned a new study into Incinerator emissions. It is funding the Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London and the Environment Research Group, Kings College London, both part of the MRC-HPA Centre for Envrionment and Health, to carry out the study.

The Study which is scheduled to start in April 2012 will examine the risk to all congenital anomalies. Mr McCracken, HPA Chief Executive, said '.......this study will provide valuable new evidence'.

I feel that this outcome is only posible if it is not limited to congenital anomalies and that the scope of the study is expanded in order to take into account, for instance, respiratory conditions, cancers (especially childhood cancers and associated conditons which may manifest themselves in adulthood) etc. I wuld also like assurances that it is a fully independent study which does not rely on information received from the incinerator operators themselves.

There is a very strong groundswell of opinion in the Northwich region which is against the building of the TATA/
E-on proposed incinerator especially as it became clear at the Public Inquiry that the 600,000 tons of waste a year alone (without the pollution emitted from the stack) which would be brought in by road, would cause further pollution from the exhausts, tyres and brakes of the 264 HGV's that would be required daily. It was stated at the Inquiry by Tata/E-on's health expert that the biggest cause of air pollution was from traffic.

As Cheshire West and Chester Council have also voted against the Tata/E-on proposal to build the Energy from Waste Incinerator in Lostock shouldn't the governments stance on 'Localism' be honoured in this instance?

Recently, it became evident that there is significant concern regarding the pollution which already exists in the Griffiths Road/Mancheste Road area of Lostock when several people reported 'red fog' to the Environment Agency. The statement made by the Environment Agency did not inspire confidence and people remain wary regarding the air quality in the locality at this present time. It is easy for industries to shrug off responsibility because of confounding factors such as several chemical industries in the vicinity for example.

This confounding will, in my opinion, be exacerbated if the incinerator receives the 'green light' from Mr Huhne. It will be made even worse if the incinerator proposed by Covanta for Middlewich is given planning permission because the two incinerator's will be within fifteen miles of each other.

In view of the study being undertaken at the behest of the Health Protection Agency should we not be pressing our Cheshire MP's to exert pressure on parliament, especially Mr Huhne and
Mr Pickles, to invoke the Precautionary Principle and halt any decision on these incinerators, certainly, until the result of the report is known and fully analysed. Anything less would, surely, be a dereliction of duty to the people who elected them.