Lee
Forster, along with his partner Corinna Milligan, Cllr Rob McKellar and a small
group of people called CARRP, have been campaigning for two years about the
proposals for Corby.
Originally
they were protesting about the 'resource recovery park' on the Brookfield
woodland, plans which were thrown out late last year by Corby Borough Council.
But
since January they have been fighting plans to lift the 30-mile limit on from
where waste could be brought to the DRENL gasification plant on Gretton Brook
Road - without which the plant would not have been financially viable.
While
NCC's development control committee met on 17th March, Lee set up Camp
Brookfield on Gretton Brook Road, outside the industrial estate where the plant
would be built.
His
peaceful, non-political protest managed to attract the attention of over nine
thousand people, and his Facebook Group is growing and bringing media attention
from far and wide.
He,
and his group of supporters, have succeeded in alerting Corby to what
incinerators will bring with them - the health risks, the increased lorry traffic,
the fact that Corby will become a dumping ground for the UK.
At
the DCC meeting where the limit was lifted to allow waste in from a 90-minute
drive of the plant, it was also said that Brookfield could soon face another
application for the 'resource recovery park'.
Brookfield
is the home of Chalky the white stag and his herd, great crested newts, many
other animals including protected species, and a host of beautiful trees, all
of which will be under threat from these new proposals.
Well,
Corby and its villages won't let that happen.
Everyone is rallying round, and there's a renewed determination to stop
these waste plants blighting our lives.
It's about time NCC, DRENL and whoever else wants to dump waste on Corby
listened.
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