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Dear RATS supporter,
The Planning Bill is currently going through Parliament.
The Bill proposes a new planning body with the power to allow major developments including large incinerators to be forced through.
The Government still havent made the changes required to the Bill to ensure that your voice is heard in decisions.
Please write to your MP and ask them to support changes to the Bill:
Guidance from Friends Of The Earth.Please read.
Many thanks,
Becky Slater
Campaign Assistant
Resource Use and Waste
Friends of the Earth.
LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE CONSULTATION Whose responsibility is it to tackle climate change in the region? Are we making the right interventions at a regional level? And are they having an impact on hitting the regional target? What else could/should we be doing? What do you think are the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents to the region's economy?
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Over the next month the Assembly's Scrutiny Board will be speaking with key partners in the region and would like to hear your views. There are a number of ways to do this:
*Write to us or email us with your views and experiences to
*Log onto the Assembly website to access key documents and feed in your views
Whatever you choose to do.
- Don't give up hope.
- Don't stop and give in.
- Tell everybody.
- And keep telling them.
- Contact the Environment Agency.
- Write/Email to your local MP.
- Write/Email to Wakefield Council.
- Write/Email to Normanton Council.
- Write/Email to your local Councillor.
Keep everything official and request a reply.
Make sure you give them details to reply to.
Make sure you give them enough time to reply.
Some common practices are to ignore you, answer in a delayed fashion or even answer you wrongly. These tactics are often used. - Don't give up.
Be sure of your facts, Don't be hostile, stick to your guns - Don't give up.
- Write to the Wakefield Express.
- Write to Yorkshire Evening Post.
- Write to your local newspaper.
- Contact Ridings FM.
- Contact your local radio.
- Reply to printed letters in your newspaper.
- Reply to stories in your newspaper.
- Take an interest in your community.
- Protect your environment.
And don't let the push for profits ruin what you have and what you want to leave for the future.
- Let your family know.
- Let your friends know.
- Let your community groups know.
- Let your neighbours know.
- Let your church groups know.
Return often to this website to see what is happening.
Let others know of the existence of this website.
notoxictip.co.uk
Read the Wakefield Express or your local newspaper to see what is happening.
Remember the Earth is still a beautiful place, but for now our part is a bit dirtier than it should be.
Together we will change that.
Quote from a rate payer in Wakefield.
" Are WRG Full Of Gas And Broken Promises."
BY TONY GARDNER. Monday 3rd April 2006.
THOUSANDS of West Yorkshire homes could be supplied with green power from one of Europe's biggest landfill site.
The operators of Welbeck tip in Wakefield have revealed plans to take gas from decomposing waste to generate electricity which will then be fed into the local grid - enough to power 8,000 homes.
But protesters have labeled the move "too little too late", claiming the eco friendly plan should have been installed at the tip seven year ago.
Landfill gas is currently collected on site through a system of pipes and burnt off into the atmosphere.
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Waste Recycling Group (WRG) has submitted details of its proposal for the development of a "landfill gas control and utilisation facility" to Wakefield Council.
Keith Hobbs, senior estates and planning manager for WRG, says: " We have submitted these proposals as we are keen to ensure that the landfill gas is used as a-resource instead of just burning it off.
"By using the gas to generate electricity Waste Recycling Group can make a positive contribution to the UK's renewable energy programme.
The generation of 'green' electricity using landfill gas is a significant contributor to the Government's climate change commitments,-as it offsets the need to burn fossil fuels."
But Paul Dainton, president of Rats (Residents Against Toxic Scheme) said the plan should the scheme should have been installed long ago.
He said: "WRG have delayed installing this for seven years now. During that time around 1m tonnes of gas a year has been wasted by being burnt into the atmosphere for local people to breathe in. It is an absolute disgrace. I would be reluctant in welcoming this proposal as so many of their promises rarely come to fruition."
Under the site's current planning permission, WRG has outline permission for the development of the facility, but is required to submit a detailed proposal for approval.
The proposed facility would generate enough 'green electricity' to provide the equivalent amount of electricity to power 8,000 homes.
Company bosses say a site must be producing a sufficient amount of gas for the installation of the facility to be economically viable.
They claim the site has to have been operating for a number of years before the amount of gas generated by the decomposing waste will reach this threshold.
The generation plant will be built within an existing compound on the site around a kilometre from the nearest homes.
It is proposed that a six metre high landscaped earth barrier is built to the south of the facility between the landfill site and the River Calder to screen views of the area from the residential area of Kirkthorpe.
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On the 14th June a letter was sent to Dame Babara Young. an employee of the Environment Agency, the letter had the headline " SITE SECURITY WELBECK LANDFILL SITE JUNE 7TH TO JUNE 14TH 2007".
The following extract has been taken from the letter, you may like to read it.
Over the last seven days I and half of Normanton have watched travellers who are camped just outside the gates at Welbeck, remove waste from the face of the tip with complete immunity.
The same travellers have travelled from the west side of the tip (7 8 9 A of your map) to the East side, Bow Spring Bridge (F,5) without any Interference from any kind of security.
The travellers have stripped and burnt cable and other materials at the Kirkthorpe blue bridge area (E.F.9) again without any interference from either Welbeck Management, the Environment Agency or Wakefield MDC, On the Western side of the river the Travellers have again made entrance through areas of border/ boundary of the site and burnt cable on the site at(C.8) these fires could be seen for miles and yet no police or security have made any approaches to the travellers.This removal of waste from the the tip working face is illegal, but the travellers have
also delivered waste to the to the site out of hours, without any problems from the EA or site management.
Whilst most of this waste is green garden waste it has also included other items including on at least one occasion large tin drums, PVC cladding and asbestos roofing materials.
This is illegal dumping of waste and contrary to the PPC permit.
Had you agreed to accompany RATS we would have shown you the areas of dumping, not just on the tip face but also around the site. It is disgusting that you refuse to accompany Rats members to see this evidence.
Here are 7 simple questions for the Environment Agency, Dame Barbara Young and Sir John Harman to answer.
- How come the Environment Agency could not see the stripped cables?
- How where these people allowed access to a secure site?
- why 6 months later can you still see the evidence?
- Why did RATS have to let you know of this incident and not WRG?
- How could material be allowed to be taken from a secure site.
- When the PPC permit was breached what did the EA do?
- Why did you not avail yourselves of the help offered by RATS?
If the Environment Agency would like to reply to these questions, RATS are eagerly waiting for your response, feel free to contact RATS by email at notoxictip@gmail.com
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