Over the past few weeks we have seen snippets in the paper about the sale of The Councils HQ, something the Conservative Administration are hailing are their idea, but Cllr Keith Austin reminded people it was the Labour proposal back in 2006 when he was the Council leader.

 

The Hark Group released plans for the Town Centre and quickly gained support for what was called “The Round”.

 

Some support was gained because they had no intention of touching the Town Park, particularly The Arena, but they were asked by Telford and Wrekin Council to include ideas for Malinslee House in their plans which they did.

 

However, plans change and the credit crunch certainly did not help and ideas for flats overlooking the Town Park were soon knocked on the head.

 

The Council recently released ideas about knocking down their HQ and rebuilding plush new offices.

 

All this at a time when Social Housing is at high demand, in short supply and continues to be sold off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, can we be certain that the T&W Council have got their priorities correct.

 

There seems to be a game of two halves here with T&W Council playing one off against the other. They seem to befriend the hark Group, whilst getting cosy with English Partnerships, Transforming Telford and the biggest waste of public money Advantage West Midlands.

 

Credit crunch / recession may affect businesses and the resident, but it won’t impact to hard on local authorities as taxes are a guaranteed income and can be introduced at anytime or simply increased.

 

We were promised an open and honest council, it gets said all the time, particularly at full council when few residents attend to listen, you can only listen as the Leader has failed to give us that voice at full council as he promised.

 

The Hark Groups public affairs department don’t return calls when you leave messages, Transforming Telford are not giving information, English Partnerships are tight lipped and AWM just don’t give a toss as they consider themselves untouchable.

 

Information about the Town Centre Development seems to have conveniently been removed from various web sites including that of Telford Shopping Centre and Transforming Telford’s Plans are still showing the information highlighting the Arena is to be built on.

 

A Council insider has said today that the Council still like the idea of a “Leisure Facility” being built on the Arena and are now referring back to the dubious consultation carried in 2007 where Cllr Bentley said,

 

 

Despite it being an option on paper, and this consultation elected members and officers being given another vote and the interested parties ie residents and groups only receiving one, and this meeting where we had to go through FOI in order to get a set of minutes of a meeting we attended.

 

A recent press release referred to 3000 house being built and it is well known the Council are very keen to have buildings overlooking the Town Park, but the only way they can realistically overlook the Town Park is to have houses built inside the Town Park and the political border.

 

Land swaps between the Council and interested parties have happened before and will happen again, so the thing is, what land is being swapped, where is being swapped and who with.

 

The Council recently built offices on St.Georges Trading Estate, then it was reported they had to sell car parking space in Donnington to fill in the budget shortfall, this was also said at the last full Council, the question that has to be asked here is,

 

 

The answer from myself is a very loud and clear NO.

 

Education of young people in the Borough is failing and was recently highlighted as follows,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Various regulations require the latest technology to be used, whilst the technology is this potential plant might be recent, it is not the latest and most up to date technology, again this was said by the same person who made the above statements.

Yes, there are health risks again admitted by the same person who also admitted that a

“Health Impact Assessment has not been done”

It is believed that the proposal for the new plant will filter airborne particles down to PM5 size, but the issue of health risks revolve around the smaller particles that are considerably smaller and are PM2.5.

What are the Health Risks from Particles of this size.

 

·           increased absenteeism and  increased number of days of restricted activity.

 

It is well known that the health effects will not be immediate, but are likely to occur over a 10 year period after residents, those living and yet to be born have in hailed the dangerous particles, therefore this installation will be poisoning future generations, some of whom are not yet born.

 

The proposed open cast mine came against some considerable resistance because of the potential adverse Environmental Impact and the potential for Adverse Health Impact on Residents

MP David Wright and his want to be MP at the time said they were against it, the want to be MP ended up resigning and MP David Wright went extremely silent, probably because he realised his beloved Party were actually responsible for this kind of thing getting the go ahead.

 

Another case in point is of course the Iron Bridge Power Station,

The Following is from the web site UK Health Research at the following link

 http://www...neration/davidwright.htm

From: "Michael Ryan"
To: David Wright
Subject: Ironbridge Power Station update
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:03:39 +0000

Dear Mr Wright,

I've forgotten to send you the electoral ward map showing the standardised mortality ratios [SMRs] for wards around Ironbridge Power Station.  I sent copies to both Mark Pritchard MP and Philip Dunne MP, but I have been distracted by the reluctance of both Shropshire County PCT and Telford & Wrekin PCT to release data under FoI.  Both PCTs have had to be "persuaded" by the Information Commissioner and among docs received is confirmation that there was no Health Protection Agency report about Ironbridge Power Station.  The newspaper reports were wrong.

What did happen was a meeting on 18 November 2005 between those involved in what can only be described as "a massive cover-up", which included personnel from both above PCTs, the Health Protection Agency, the Environment Agency, the 3 local authorities, ie Telford & Wrekin, Bridgnorth & SABC, the power station owner [EOn], who had reps from both HQ & Buildwas and they "cooked up" a series of "questions and answers" of which I have a copy.  These questions & answers are just tosh & have no scientific value at all and yet are the best efforts of those who are supposed to be protecting our health.

If the PM2.5 emissions from Ironbridge Power Station have had no measurable impact on health and mortality, there'll be no difference between rates of illness & mortality in upwind & downwind wards.
Over a year ago, I proved that asthma rates among schoolchildren were higher downwind of the power station [www.ukhr.org/asthma] and you kindly sent my correspondence to Telford PCT with your letter of 19 January 2006.  I'd be grateful if you'd send me a copy of their reply as they "forgot" to enclose in in the bundle of docs delivered last week.

Dr Catherine Woodward has prepared an updated report about Ironbridge [June 2006] which includes a lot of data, but only for selected wards, not all Telford wards.  One of the sheets shows the hospital admission rates for under-15s in the 4 electoral wards she chose to prop up her fraudulent report [she should have included data from uopwind wards in Shropshire County PCT].  When just coal was burnt, both the volume and toxic content of the PM2.5 emissions were far less.  The data provided by Dr Woodward shows just how the under-15s in Ironbridge Gorge ward have suffered.  These are the age standardised Hospital admission rates for acute pulmonary disease for under 15s for six successive "years".  The "years" are not individual years, but are five year rolling averages, starting 1995/1996-1999/2000 and ending 2000/2001-2004/2005.
The age standardised admission rates were: 55, 55, 145, 218, 436, 655 respectively.  You'll notice that there has been a staggering and consistent upward trend followingco-incineration of waste oils & paint waste since 1998.

You'll easily be able to get ward maps showing the following electoral wards & joing Telford & Wrekin wards to Shropshire.  Dr Woodward's June 2006 report has a ward map showing River Severn & also the power station.  You'll be abke to check that the power station is sited in the south east [ie downwind] end of Severn Valley ward [SABC].

Telford & Wrekin PCT have spent a lot of time, money & effort into covering up the truth and Dr Dick van Steenis and I have spent a considerable amount of time, but less money, in trying to get the truth exposed.  On 21 SEpt 2005, Simon Conolly, CEO of Telford & Wrekin PCT wrote the following in his letter in the Shropshire Star:  "There is no scientific evidence that patterns of illness and premature death are associated with industrial PM2.5 emissions in Telford & Wrekin........" [7th par] and yet the above data shows a clear association between premature deaths in under 85s and exposure to PM2.5s from Ironbridge Power Sation.

The big issue now is why there has been a cover-up of the truth when all the data shows clearly that Dr van Steenis and I have been correct.  When Richard Pennell spoke on Beacon Radio, 15 Feb 2005, he claimed that he could prove that emissions from the power station were not harmful to health.  I wrote & asked him for that proof, or the names of the doctors who wrote the reports and he ignored my request in his reply.  My suspicion is that there has been systematic bribery and corruption of doctors and others from all the above-named bodies who were at the meeting of 18 Nov 2005.  Also, SABC hold data about Ironbridge power station on the public register and when I tried to get copies I was told I'd have to pay £8-30 per A4 sheet.  It seems that Dave Spode at SABC isn't too keen for anyone to have copies of such documents.

Dr Jeremy Queenborough [Dyfed Health Autority] was bribed with a farmhouse & 9 acres to keep quiet about the health effects of the power station/oil refinery complex at Milford Haven.  I'm sure he'd wish to admit it, but he died of a heart attack in 2000, when aged just 52 years, having denied Dr van Steenis the heart attack data by postcode.

My Shropshire Star letters have been "chipping away" at Telford & Wrekin PCT and Dr Caterine Woodward wrote the following in her e-mail to Simon Conolly on 22 July 2005: "I'm increasingly having to fight my personal urges to respond to his [ie Michael Ryan's] letters."

Dr Woodward was extremely foolish to change her mind about meeting Dr van Steenis and myself last May/June. I now doubt whether any good will have come from such a meeting.

Mr Conolly had taken exception to my Shropshire Star letter of 30 Aug 2005 "Premature death rate in county" and the 2nd paragraph in his letter of 21.9.05 stated" There are no scientific or medical facts to support his theory and it is irresponsible to cause public concern with these allegations."

Dr Woodward and others are in a far worse situation than the Barrow-in-Furness architect who cancelled a contract to service air condtioning equipment and caused less than 100 deaths.  Dr Woodward and others are covering up the true cause of thousands of deaths that have already occurred and are continuing at the rate of about 500 a year.  It's manslaughter on a grand scale and as your constituents are most affected, I'd be grateful if you'd be the prime mover in getting this issue into the public domain.  I look forward to your early response.

It's a simple issue of the lives of hundreds of your constituents -v- the "reputation" of a handful of so-called professionals.

When Dr van Steenis and I met John McDonnell MP [9 Marcch 2004] at the House of Commons, we were told that some issues "were taboo" but the birth defect data was published government data which showed wide variations in rates and Mr McDonnell raised a series of PQs on that issue.  The above SMR data shows that there has been unlawful killing on a grand and indiscriminate scale and that the cause is, and has always been, readily identifiable.

If you require any further information, or a meeting with Dr van Steenis and myself, please let me
know.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Ryan

cc Dr Dick van Steenis MBBS

 

On this issue MP David Wright has remained silent and chosen not to say anything and has even requested information that Michael Ryan made available be deleted.

So MP David Wrights stance is clear

Ignore it and it goes away

As for info to be deleted and hope it goes away

Or when he realises its his party at fault he cuts off any communication.

I would strongly suggest that everybody visits

or even google

Dr.Dick Van Steenis

 

When it comes to installations of this nature, it is unfortunate that too many people have too much to gain, therefore, it will lead to them offering misinformation and an installation of this type will poison future generations.

Health Impact Assessments are something they will want to avoid like the plague. Comparisons of Health Effects for up wind and down wind will be avoided.

The Government will fudge its figures in anyway it can to prove its own point and of course too many people could loose out on a lot of money if it doesn’t go ahead, it is this factor that really cloud the issue.

This is NOT a case of being a “NIMBY”, this is a case of not wanting communities and future generations poisoned.

If the Leader of the Council can say he is against a free range chicken farm, he cannot say he is in favour of this installation as the risks to health are considerably higher.

If Labour Councillors can say they are against houses being built on a car park in Donnington, they have to say a Loud and Clear NO to this installation a protect their wards from being poisoned.

I for one will resist this installation, again not because I am a NIMBY, not for the sheer want of resisting it, but because it has to be stopped and people health and future has to be put first. 

I call on everyone, who just want to do the right thing and come forward to campaign long and hard to stop this, the adverse health affects from this Proposed Incinerator will affect everyone of us in very many different ways.