Firstly,
the importance of retaining, or indeed increasing, the level of fire cover for
Corby and its villages.
Secondly,
with the increasing number of waste plants - recycling facilities, call them what
you will - planned for Corby, this could become a regular occurrence. There are reports on the news with
frightening regularity of waste plants somewhere in the country catching fire,
due to the nature of the business and the items being stored and processed.
Thirdly,
and very worryingly, is do we know exactly what's being processed in these
various facilities and what toxins can been released into the air if they do
catch fire?
I
know it's sensible to keep your doors and windows shut when such an event
occurs, but unless your house is hermetically sealed, how do you ensure that
these particles don't get in there?
What
about the people living close to this and the other planned waste plants? There's the Travellers' Site at Dunlop Close
and the Settled Middle Age Travellers just up Gretton Brook Road, all the new
housing at Priors Hall, not to mention all the houses off Rockingham Road in
Corby itself and the nearby villages.
There's
been a campaign about the plants planned for Corby for about three years. We've just been informed that the approved
plans for an anaerobic digester and a pyrolysis plant at Shelton Road are now
being amended for another gasification plant.
What
will it take for Northamptonshire County Council to start listening to the
people of Corby?
We
don't want these. We don't more lorries
bringing who knows what waste from the rest of the UK to be processed on our
doorsteps. We certainly don't want to
live downwind of them, and we have major concerns about their safety given the
number of fires.
Councillors,
please ask yourselves and answer honestly, would you live next to these, or
have your children go to school next to them?
I somehow doubt it...
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