Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, July 3rd, 1997 13 ^ ^ Q ^ ^ ^ ^ t i U o r l a l ) , 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Letters
Clean air survey has no credibility whatsoever
IN YOUR excellent coverage of the Environ ment Agency's m-«su>n»u' tion, you kindly referred
a 's pre enta-
to my suggestion that its Air Quality Monitoring Survey was no more than a meaningless cosmetic exercise." Perhaps you
ror ft) Percent of that time u 1 ; What, might the
oon?
benuii ro a dings have 4. What credence can a
will now permit me to put’ l'° " a plume-grounding, my point in more details, e n c o u ra g in g C a s t le
- - ..... , „„ veferonce to our horfen-
decided that the optimum time to. undertake a close survey of air quality
1. W h a t “ e x p e r t "
survey ho afforded which m a k e s l i t t l e or no
from a layman’s perspec- Cement to trot out the old tive, and using the 78-page ?aw that it is only the coal- summary of the report.
(inspectors should npt automatically believe what they , are told by the industry — para 151.) We wouldbe roundly con demned if we suggested that the Cemfuel used in the trial period was “doc
tored”, but- Ribble Valley was once' again 'a t its cleanest1
in the two weeks spanning «wl as many videos con- , P j ,ook fo^ai'd to 2. What faith can be
................... acknowledged (para. 107) r™ winf Mr^Ham
burning kiln that grounds. They both ground much of the timo, as we all know, as the Select Committee
placed in £500,000-worth of equipment which was
November 5th? F ** firm. and they always will, ^ f nn’.itive resnonse to 9
Given the Select Commit, te e s concern that “the A
either “not operational” or “being calibrated” for 40 per cent of the time Cem fuel was being incinerated in the intensive monitoring period (pp 27 to 67)? And what may actually have
agency has allowed the continued burning of Cem
ta k en place in those periods? 3. Of what use is “soun
dest science” equipment which is apparently inca pable of recording mea surements above a certain level, as the graphs for kilns five and six clearly show, particularly when kiln five was “not in use”
fuel . . . in spite of the fact that the plume from kilns five and six continues to ground” (para. 113) some might see this as negli g en t . I t is in Castle Cement’s interest to per petuate the one-chimney myth, and some might criticise you too for going along with it.
Committee’s fiercest 'criti cisms of the agency, and! there were many, was of their habit of giving Castle Cement notice of testing
5. One of the. Select Great personality
THIS week one of the great personalities of the Ribble | Valley has passed away — Rufus Carr.
' tractor, stationary engine or vintage car, Rufus would freely give of his wealth of knowledge or repair, or make you a bit that would get you going again. Over the 30 years I knew him he made many a bit or “fet tled” my cars and gave me a lot of advice that was
Rufus was a great friend to many people who are involved in old machinery. Whether it was an old
As well as being a very successful businessman, -
invaluable. ■
dreds of bits of equipment that are working because of his skill will be a lasting memorial to. him. I know
he was fixing parts until only a few days ago. When you are seen in a vintage car, one ot , the
case of Rufus. ROBIN BENDALL, Grindleton.
Steps are now safe
'' condition of tlie'step's below the town clock, leading1 to the library from York Street, have given us cause tor
concern
done to make these steps safe, but we achieved noth ing. Then the traffic-calming measures and work on the pavements began in the town centre. We thought the conditionof the steps would surely be noticed and the.
We asked various officials, if something could he •,
steps repaired, but they were not. However, all was not lost. During a conversation
, Salthill Road, Clitheroe.
MAURICE HOLDEN,
Asthma virtually unknown before the switch to toxic waste
TN 1995 I investigated inhaler use in the pri- S arv schools around the Castle Cement works aruPfound a major problem m t^ ir pollution
footprint, with very low levels upwind. ■
i>t further, alk it app^eare, . org^ . c compounds> that .nnected with the bum- g of toxic waste and the nission of heavy metal irticulates and a cocktail organic compounds.
t n peals
ilieve that asthma was rtually-unknown in the
ibbish my findings in »ur'issue of June 5 th , , ling what I consider to
Castle Cement tried to .
■ a smear from a Dyfed ealth Authority press lease of March, 1995. ie minutes of that health ithority said they had n a read my report, but r e d e te rm in e d to
iterit.i.
•believe the public 13 ig mislead and, m my
.
nion, are being pol ed with1 the emissions n Castle. Cement. Do
lers know that the firm ends to burn toxic te in the kiln to which y propose to t i t a
EVES stole a variety ms from a car in the re car park in Dunsop
SfV-ffcS
s'and bankers cards stole were valued at
- inCV,rOt a°ndU2-JO Keen 1-39 am
on Monday. I
irest of Bowland before e switch to high levels toxic waste.
j L r al an,l itTnDears heavy metals and certain.
can cause asthma, deaths of heart patients and cer tain cancers. Many of
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these go through scrub bers, let alone without, as is now the case.. Scrubbers cool emissions;, so will lead to yet more plume-ground ing. Castle Cement can do
that Health and Safety E x ecu tiv e prosecute
better. . , , , , J Readers should demand
under section three of the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Environment A g e n c y u n d e r th e
^ " 7 It^™ time^hese two ] tors obeyed the laws land. Castle Cement I
, guilty in that regard also. I DR DICK van !STEENIS,
has failed to supply proper detailed COSHH Data sheets'on demand and is
MB, BS, Lilac Close, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.
MONDAY evening’s win- ners at Clitheroe Bridge r»i,ih were as follows. JNo. Mr and<
Bowker and Mi s M. . Thompson, Mrs J. Cowling and Mrs J. Stubbens. On Thursday, the winners^ of
H. Fielding and Mr G- Capstick. E^ :
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the Howell movement were Mr a n d Mrs J. Paw- Hcki, Mr -C. and Mrs G. I
Pollard. W- M. s.
The winners Mrs G. Pollard, Mr
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with a well-known ex-councillor, I mentioned the saga of the steps. “Leave it with me , he said. I did and the result is there for all to see. . . a brand-new set of steps achieved in less than a fortnight.
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During that time we have made frequent use ol 1 the-excellent facilities of the library. However,-the .
MY wife and I returned to live in Clitheroe eight years ago.
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J. D. MORTIMER Green Drive, Clitheroe.
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Excited pupils surf the internet
A SNEAK preview; of life in the 21st-century classroom was given to ■ Ribble Valley, chil dren when BT set. up the latest information technology at a local secondary school..
— it stands for-The Inter-: national Challenge, Tropic ,
The TIC -TOC roadshow.'
of Cancer — came to St Augustine’s RC High School,, in Billington;, for two days and. offered chil
! when the inspec opportunity- to plug-in. to,
this survey has no credibi) ity whatsoever. . , Though I am not quali-
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demonstrated to over 50 primary and secondary school pupils how they could speak face to face through a - computer with members of an interna tional expedition-organ ised by TIC T O C ; v ;
A simulated experiment
dition will attempt to cir cumnavigate the globe, via, the • Tropic of Cancer, ..and schools will be able to com municate with team members.- .-
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House fire
CLITHEROE fire-fight ters diconnected. the elec
ble Valley primary school pupils who have been viewing the technology which will be their tools in the next century. (CAT 10234) ■ "
Tower Hill, when they tackled a washing-machine fire on Monday afternoon. The fire was caused by an electrical fault. I t took fire-fighters 20 minutes to deal with the blaze. :
ricity supply at a house in SAME DAY JEWELLERY REPAIR SERVICE GTMS'E^yiCE ' •
, "Working Jeweller" -21 Moor Lane, Clitheroe
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