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LETTERS


Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classl J


Campaigner is trying to compare chalk with cheese, says company


MR J. D. MORTIMER'S letter last week sought to compare emissions from Castle Cement's kilns five and six, where Cemfuel is burned, with those from


kiln seven, where it is not. His source of information


was, in fact, the annual releases inventory, signed by me and placed on the public record. In seeking to make his com­


parison, Mr Mortimer over­


looked that Castle is only allowed to burn Cemfuel as a replacement for up to 40% of coal on kilns five and six. In


practice, the percentage of Cem fuel actually burned is consider­ ably less than this. More significantly, however,


Mr Mortimer makes no allowance for the fact that the much more modem and fuel-effi­ cient kiln seven operates by the "dry" process, whereas kilns five and six use the more traditional "wet" slurry as a raw material. Mr Mortimer is, in effect, com­ paring chalk and cheese. The proper comparison to make is one between burning


coal and burning a mixture of Cemfuel and coal, by the same


process and on the same kilns. That, in fact, is the comparison


Plan would re-inforce social divisions


EDUCATION, education, education, was the election


pledge. In last week's edition of the Clitheroe Advertiser and


Times, you state that "six hundred teenagers have to decide on further education or a job". I ask, are they or perhaps, more pertinently, their par- ents aware of the likely increased cost of sending a stu­


dent to college in September, 1998? The County Education Committee is seeking the


approval of the full county council meeting for their deci­ sion to axe assistance with transport for new 16+ stu-


This means that any student wishing to start at a sixth-


form college in September will not be able to purchase a subsidised bus pass and will have to pay the full cost of transport themselves.


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cost in excess of £500 per year. It is not just the rural areas of the Ribble Valley which will be affected, as towns such as Longridge and Chorley have no sixth-form edu-


These measures would also seriously jeopardise the


. right of parents to have their children educated at an institution in which the religious education provided is that of the religion to which the parent adheres. The implementation of these measures would reinforce


social division and inequality within our society and would strike hardest at those whom the Government is trying to encourage to continue their education beyond


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MARGARET M. BREAKS, .


Newton, Clitheroe


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Castle asked the independent scientific research company, AEA Technology, to carry out more than four years ago. May I remind your readers of


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the principal conclusion reached by those independent consul­ tants: "The burning of a mixture of coal and Cemfuel in place of 100% coal has no overall impact on emissions from the kilns". The report also found Cemfuel


to offer the following benefit: "Cost savings, which have made it possible for Castle Cement Ltd. to bring forward investment leading to better environmental performance of the Ribblesdale


Works". In fact, the prophetic nature of r * r l « A n w \ n k n f i/ t t io f t i i


this last observation only became truly apparent more than two years later, when Cas­ tle announced plans to install the first emissions scrubbing plant at a UK cement works - at a cost of £5 million. Alternative fuels have certainly helped Castle cut costs and maintain profits, but a sizeable proportion of the benefit has been set aside to improve environmental performance.


IAN SUTHERAN,


General Manager, Castle Cement Ltd, Ribblesdale Works.


Delinquent road users ignore efforts to slow them down


REGARDING last week's article headed "Road blackspot delay 'total­ ly inadequate',” I am of the opinion we may be putting responsibility on


to the "wrong target" here. The headline could read - "In spite


of council efforts to slow traffic in blackspot, motorists' powers of road


sign observation are still totally inade­


quate". True that we residents in Moor Field


risk our lives every time we attempt to exit from Moor Lane into Mitton Road. This is due to ignorant motorists blatantly ignoring existing signs. May I point out to "angry householders" that the council has had five warning signs approaching the bend in question for some years. Last year, the council laid down broad red areas with white bars, in an effort to slow down the traf­ fic. A second slow sign was also added across the carriageway. There are now: a 30 m.p.h. limit sign,


an elderly people crossing sign, a bend sign, a junction sign and two slow


signs. It has been in my mind for the past


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couple of years to write to the "Adver­ tiser and Times" to bring it to the attention of delinquent road users how dangerous it is for we residents to exit from Moor Lane into Mitton Road.


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Recent events, plus last week’s arti­ cle, raised my blood level over boiling


point. May I suggest the follownng as a pos­


sible solution - constabulary please take note - every week, on a different day, for several months the police have one of their campaigns and man the area near Calderstones and trap every single motorist who comes round the bend in excess of 30 miles per hour. The motorists should have penalty


points imposed or be taken to court and held up as an example of drivers who put other people's lives at risk, with their names published in the


paper. Perhaps only then will these "sign


ignoring" drivers get the message. I don't always champion the council,


but in this particular case I believe it is the public who are blind to the fact that they have done their job. It is a sad sign of the times when we


have to accept that road signs are no longer of use and one must place phys­ ical barriers and obstacles in the car­ riageways in an attempt to stop some motorists from driving in a manner dangerous to others.


DORIS BROWN Moor Field, Whalley.


Sheep dip case is a warning


WHAT a pity you did not mention the case of the ex-farm manager and his £80,000 settlement for health damage from organo-phosphate poi­


soning. Mr Bob Shepherd was


farm manager of the Lan­ cashire College of Agricul­ ture's hill farm at Dinkling Green, in the hills above the


Hodder Valley. His settlement received


national media coverage because it was the first in which OP poisoning had been legally accepted as causing permanent health damage in the UK. He lost his health


and his job. It was a monumental mile­


stone, not just for the other 600 or more people already acknowledged to have suf­ fered from OP sheep dips, but also for people exposed to chemicals elsewhere. It follows successful claims in Australia by three sheep shearers, and a lady musician in Hong Kong, whose room was chemically treated, causing her perma­ nent health damage. This fight for recognition


has been a long and hard one by many people, and it is of vital importance, I believe, to the situation of pollution from grounding fumes from the cement works in the Ribble


Valley. This claim was not against


the Government who made farmers use sheep dip, nor the manufacturers, but against the employer. Negligence by the Govern­


ment bodies, such as the Health and Safety Executive, did not come into the reckon­


ing. If the same legal argument


is used, I believe there is no defence for Ribble Valley employers, whose workers are exposed to chemical fumes, by


attempting to abdicate responsibility because the Environment Agency did


nothing. Two Environment Select .


Committee reports have con­ demned the continued incin­ eration of wastes in Clitheroe, and they are available pub­ licly. Publicity in the local press could leave no one in any doubt as to the existence of a potential threat to peo­


ple's health. International combustion


expert Richard Courtney put it very clearly, in public: "When a plume is grounding it is hurting people - no mat­ ter what they are burning". Both stacks regularly ground. As ratepayers, residents should insist that Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council does not send technicians out to evalu­ ate health complaints from grounding plumes, with only their nose - and lungs—as test equipment. Any scientist will confirm that "because it does­ n't smell, a chemical is harm­ less" is not necessarily true. Cheap, mobile equipment is readily available. In any case, fine particu­


lates carry no smell but are now proven to be implicated in heart disease, and sudden deaths, as well as in lung dis­ ease. It has, therefore, passed the stage where a note "asth­ matics need not apply" would serve any purpose in adverts for teachers, nurses, office staff etc. We are all at risk. What a pity you didn’t


cover the Bob Shepherd story, instead of the vindictive driv­ el you carried in your letters


column


MARY HORNER, Heights Farm, Bolton-hy-Bowland..


0 . Are there too many cats? Intrusion to residents


A F T E R reading the report in the Advertiser and Times on the shoot­ ing of the cats, I felt I had


to write. First, I would like to say I


was saddened to hear about the cats that had been fired at with an air gun, and I would not condone this sort


of action. However, I do understand the


frustration that cats can cause to other residents. Myself and other residents on a fairly new estate in Clitheroe are concerned about the number of cats in our area.


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I Halt Day closing Wednesday 12 Noon. 13 Castle Street • Clitheroe • (01200) 423042 We find it extremely frustrating


that they choose to excrete in our gardens, digging up flower and vegetable beds. It is unpleasant to find the remains while gardening, not to mention unhygienic, espe­ cially if there are children playing


about in the garden. Perhaps, even worse, is having


to clean up their vomit from the driveway and patio. Not very


pleasant. It is not possible to pin it down


to one particular cat in order to ask its owner to clean it up, as there are so many cats in the area. We have in excess of 10 cats that frequent our gardens. It is unfair to expect residents


to pay for cat repellents, which, by all accounts, don’t work. I feel it should be down to the more irre­ sponsible cat owners to limit the number of cats they have in future. After all, what if every household on an estate had cats that they allowed to roam free all hours and were kept outdoors? It is unfair on both residents and the cats. And I haven't even begun to mention the effects on the native wildlife, which some of us try to encourage into our gardens!


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A FRUSTRATED RESIDENT (On behalf of other frustrated res­


idents).


MAY I through your col­ umn take the opportuni­ ty of thanking council­ lors Mrs Joyce Holgate and Arthur Pearson for their support in objecting to the plans for an art gallery (second applica­


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tion) in Whalley. In my observations of your


report, it seems that Mr McCabe had taken it upon himself to invite members of the planning committee to


visit the site. Why, may I ask, were the objectors not noti­ fied of their intended visit, to enable them to state their


objections? This small residential site is


already encumbered with industrial units to the rear and we feel that this is an intrusion of yet another unit or house, whatever you wish to call it, on to a residential


area. As a recent property owner


on the proposed site, I was assured by the builder that he could not see planning per­ mission being granted. There­ fore, on the verbal under­ standing of this, I purchased


the property. Mr McCabe is fully aware


of the local residents' views on this application.


this application. We already have traffic


problems within this area and fear for the safety of children is of paramount importance in our objections. Coun. Howel Jones's


remarks: "It is a benign appli­ cation, unlikely to cause any harm whatsoever to the area]*. May I finally add to this


remark that his encapsulated views and opinions to support this application are not accepted by the residents who


live here.


STAFFORD OWEN, The Arches, Whalley.


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butchers. Your butcher will tell you what meats are particu­


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