EA Permit Deadline Extended

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  1. Jo says:

    Baseline Community Health study. Incinerators are well known to cause community health problems due to their

    significant volumes of toxic emissions and major upset emissions and malfunctions. EA needs to require a

    baseline community health study to document the health of local residents prior to there final permitting of the

    incinerator. A fatal flaw in EA’s incinerator regulations is the serious failure to require a baseline community

    health study to be conducted.

    BREP will be next to Air Quality Management Area in Davyhulme, we don’t need our air quality to be made

    any worse.

  2. Jo says:

    WHAT IS THE AIM OF AN AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT AREA IF NOT TO GET THE AIR POLLUTION DOWN,
    CERTAINLY IT SHOULD NOT BE TO POLLUTE THE PEOPLE MORE. http://aqma.defra.gov.uk/
    Air Quality Management Areas – Defra, UK
    aqma.defra.gov.uk

  3. Jo says:

    Q. Is there any chance of the biomass plant chimney ever catching fire as sometimes happens with domestic chimneys.
    A. Yes. The instruction for operators in the manual “Health and Safety in Biomass Boilers” issued by Gastec at CRE in December 2011 state in the section on chimney fires
    “LET THE FIRE BURN”.

    Q. What would be the effect of a chimney fire on the surrounding districts?
    A. It would be horrendous. Because we are now dealing with large particulates i.e. soot, most of these would be deposited within 3000m (1 ½ miles) from the plant as previously indicated by plant operators. It would be a chimney fire from Hell.

    Q. Do wood burning biomass plants always produce Dioxins?
    A. Yes, this is not in dispute.

  4. Jo says:

    These are just some of the things we in Davyhulme are awaiting the pollution from (via industrial processes or traffic):
    Methane Plant…. Approved
    Peel Hotel, Junction 9 M60…. Approved
    New Super Market, Junction 10 M60…. Approved
    Office Block, Junction 10 M60…. Approved
    Conference Centre (EventCity)…. Recently operating
    Paper Mill, Carrington…. Recently operating
    Salford Reds Stadium…. Recently opened
    850MW Gas Power Station, Carrington…. Potential
    Green Lane Incinerator, Monton…. Potential.

    Traffic is already unacceptable in a residential area due to the Trafford Centre. The M60 is the third busiest motorway in the country. The pollution from this alone is killing people.

  5. Jo says:

    Changes to the operator permit which will worsen air pollution can occur after the plant has
    been given approval. The EA appear to prioritise the wants of the operator over the needs
    of the local area. Examples include:

    Eastcroft Incinerator – The EA allowed an increase in the volume of waste
    processed there by 40,000 tonnes
    http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/141126.aspx

    Ince Incinerator– The EA allowed changes including an alteration to the technology
    used in the plant, a change to the types of waste accepted by the plant and an
    increase in the volume of waste processed by 180,000 tonnes per annum.
    http://www.environment-
    agency.gov.uk/news/134215.aspx?page=4&month=10&year=2011

    Port Talbot – Despite ambient air quality already breaching EU laws, the EA
    permitted a biomass plant, but introduced lower emission limits. However, once it
    became apparent that it was unable meet these low pollution levels in reality, the
    operator applied to the EA to increase the permitted levels and the EA agreed
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-12829993

  6. Jo says:

    CHIMNEY HEIGHT • Chimney height – why is BREP the only plant in the country with a chimney this
    short? Other plants with chimneys of this size handle less than half of the waste/
    waste wood/ Solid Recovered Fuel (85k tones and 24k tonnes). • Saica papermill plant (Carrington) is 22m higher (at 66m) why is ours a third lower
    when same weather models will have been used? • Peel’s biomass plant at Ince Marshes has a chimney height of 85m. Why? Why
    doesn’t the same standard apply in Davyhulme? • At a meeting with the Breathe Clean Air Group on the morning of 12th June 2012,
    Simon Holbrook (EA) stated that the chimney height should ideally be 60-100m. Why isn’t it then? Why haven’t you rejected the plant, as it can’t meet this specification?

  7. Concerned resident says:

    PEEL = PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE

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