Telford & Wrekin Council Watch

 

TelfordPAIN, (Telford Protest Against Incinerator Now),the campaign group set up to stop the construction of a proposed waste incinerator in Telford, are urging people to join them on their New Year's Resolution Rally on Sunday 11th January as they take to the streets of Telford, Newport and Shifnal with their campaign roadshow.

 

The group are heading to the streets to heighten awareness of plans by SITA UK to build a household waste incinerator adjacent to the existing Granville Landfill Site at Redhill; they are urging people to make it their New Year's Resolution to join the campaign and stop the project in its tracks.

 

"If planning permission is granted to this project then it won't just be the thousands of homes and dozens of schools close to the incinerator that will be affected", said spokesman Stephen Pessall, " We estimate that there will be a plume of particulate-bearing emissions with a footprint of 15 to 20 miles. Prevailing winds in the area will blow harmful emissions across Newport, Sherrifhales, and Shifnal as well as Telford. Extensive research has shown that incineration of household waste produces toxins and dioxins which are hazardous to health”.

 

He added, “A professor in America, Dr. Paul Connett at St. Lawrence University in New York, has researched waste management issues with a special emphasis on the dangers posed by incineration, his findings are quite alarming! The incineration of municipal waste with energy recovery has been an ‘experiment which after 20 years has left the citizens of industrialised countries with a legacy ofunacceptably high levels of dioxins and related compounds in their babies, their tissues, their food and in wild life’.

 

Organisers of the rally are keen to attract high numbers to the event to prove that ‘People Power’ really can work.

The day long New Year's Resolution Rally will start in Newport before moving onto to several sites ending with a Party At The Park style event at the Park House Hotel in Shifnal, where local band, Hot Rodd 55, will play live on stage, including their song ‘Incinerator Blues’, written especially for the campaign.

“We are urging everyone to come along to an event in their area to find out more about the proposed incinerator and show their support against it, this involves thousands of residents in and around areas that will be affected if this alarming plan is to go ahead”, said Mr Pessall.

 

 

 

 

 

Research findings taken from:

Dr. Paul Connett Professor of Chemistry
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617.

 

Dr Van Steenis is an internationally known and respected researcher and campaigner into deaths and illnesses surrounding major sources of pollution in the UK.

Incineration of waste vaporises heavy metals making the particulates emitted even more lethal when you inhale them into your lungs. Emissions will consist of PM2.5 particulates which mostly pass through the abatement equipment and which go into the deepest part of your lungs when inhaled.

Your health can be put at risk for 3 days just from an hour’s exposure if the wind blows the PM2.5s your way.

His research into deaths and chronic illness surrounding major pollution in this country has found that by inhaling PM2.5 particulates from waste burning include:

Birth defects, miscarriages, low birth weight rates in babies (in direct proportion

Premature deaths of babies, infants and adults. eg. In London the infant mortality in zones downwind of the incinerators is 7 times higher than in wards upwind. (9.0 cf 1.3/1000 --- ONS data 2003/5)

T-lymphocyte diversion to lungs with depletion causes SIDS, cot deaths, autism, MS, GBS

Attention deficit and other behaviour problems, some leading to crime.

Lower IQ & educational achievement down 2 years, worse GCSE grades (due partly to PAHs)

Asthma, COPD, viral & bacterial respiratory & other infections (especially boys)

Coronary heart disease, heart attacks, arteriosclerosis, strokes, SADS.

Diabetes type 2, (sometimes type 1). Endometriosis & other hormone disruption.

Multiple chemical sensitivity with allergies & arthritis

ME, CFS, Hypothyroidism with low T3 level (adding to obesity)

Clinical depression & suicides, apathy, which increases the obesity problem.

CANCERS—nonHodgkins lymphoma, brain, breast, colon, lung, prostate, kidney, liver etc

Breast cancer for example can be caused by faulty genes (2%), HRT (5%) radiation, OP pesticides/herbicides, and from chimneys—cadmium, dioxins (& similar), & PAHs

Analysis of 9 health parameters in Telford by ward in 2005 revealed increases in illnesses, SMR & age adjusted mortality in 7 polluted wards compared with 24 less polluted wards. An incinerator built in Colnbrook 1990 caused Slough SMR to worsen from 88 to 121 by 2001 meaning 11 years off lifespan follow government

Compiled 8 January 2008 & Copyright by Dr. Dick van Steenis MBBS who has reports in 4 peer-reviewed medical publications and has lectured at 4 international medical conferences in addition to public inquiries.

GLOSSARY--

COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease PAH - Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons CFS= Chronic Fatigue Syndrome IPPC = Integrated Pollution & Prevention Control USEPA = USA Environmental Protection Agency SADS = Sudden Adult Death Syndrome