PEEL ENERGY HOLDING: Stop the project of the biomass incinerator in Manchester
OUR FIGHT IN MANCHESTER IS INTERCONNECTED WITH THE WHOLE WORLD!!!
If we can stop it here, it mean we can stop it everywhere !
Officially, it sounds like a really good idea : burn our food and biomass waste, to create low carbon level energy for 37,000 homes.
In fact , the reality is that the plant will emit dangerous pollutants including arsenic, dioxins and nitrogen dioxide, at a distance of just 500 metres from the nearest homes.
In Febuary 2014, a High Court judge has ruled a biomass incinerator can be built in Greater Manchester despite opposition from the local council and residents.
This is surprising , given that the ambient air in Manchester is already breaching EEC legal limits.
The really basic question here is :
« HOW CAN IT BE LEGAL TO BUILD THIS INCINERATOR? »
On the 3rd of Febuary this year it was revealed that a major new study into whether incinerator emissions affect human health, commissioned by Public Health England, has been delayed. Due to be published this March, the study will not be completed until 2015.
Scientists from Imperial College London and Kings College London have been undertaking the study on behalf of Public Health England, to understand if ill health and infant deformities around 22 incinerators have any clear connection to those incinerators. A clear link could be seen if there are more cases downwind, but it is feared that the Scientists have been instructed to take an average around each incinerator.
Campaigners around the country have studied ill-health statistics issued by the National Office of Statistics and have identified that people living downwind of incinerators suffer much higher cases of ill-heath and infant mortality than those living upwind of incinerators.
Since 2010, the Breathe Clean Air Group has been campaigning to stop the biomass waste incinerator, known as the Barton Renewable Energy Plant.
Group Chairman, Pete Kilvert said, “the Government is hell bent on burning the country’s waste and telling us that it won’t do us any harm. When waste such as plastics, metals and organic material are burnt at low temperatures, then new chemicals such as dioxins and heavy metals will settle out into our community. The toxic fall-out can accumulate in school playgrounds, to be kicked up and breathed in by children at play. This will have massive ill-health impacts for the people of Trafford, Salford, Flixton, Davyhulme, Urmston and generaly Manchester”.
Of course, we have to find a way to recycle the waste of our human societies, but not in a total lack of respect of human lives!
So it's time to raise our voices, to support the local organisations, by the «side of ourselves» because we are really very much concerned. If we can stop this plant here in Manchester, we can stop it everywhere. The world is not a bank account, and our lives are not to be sold!!!