Once again the Guardian has done a wonderfully balanced job of reporting on the pre Inquiry meeting to be held next Tuesday, yet the entire report seems to avoid using the word Incinerator at all.  The comments underneath the article are probably mor revealing than the reporting itself and you can read the story and comments here.

Let’s be clear, the proposal for this plant is to drop a 600,000 tonne incinerator on the edge of town and let it sit there for the next 40-50 years.  There seems to be clear disregard for the residents of Northwich and any reassurance that is requested is met with standard PR spin which contains a lot of platitudes and little concrete reassurance.  And that is because they cannot offer any reassurance or guarantees. Once you build an Incinerator you are stuck with it – for a lifetime.  If it goes wrong it happens on your doorstep.  If it breaches its emissions those same emissions will be inhaled by you and your family.  If it catches fire (one of the many hazards of an incinerator ironically) it’s on fire next to our houses, schools and community.  If Northwich has one of it’s inversions (a regular occurrence in spring and autumn) then the emissions from the chimney, no matter how high it is, will not disperse and we will all inhale the muck it pours out.

So, if you care about where you live and the health of you and your family, you could do worse than attend the Pre Inquiry meeting at Northwich Victoria Football Club next Tuesday, 26th July and register your protest.

With the Northwich Pre Inquiry Planning Meeting starting next week (Tuesday 26th at 11.00m – be there!) we’re proud to announce the launch of our new website.  We’re kept most of the material from the old one but have gone for a more modern look and feel.  The new site will allow us to put more information on as soon as we get it and to give more opportunity for people to enter into discussions on posts.

Please bear with us whilst we make sure the site has all the resources on it from the old one – if you spot any links that are missing or anything that you think should be there but isn’t then please let us know and we’ll trry our best to put it right.

As with all these things we’re staffed by a small but dedicated band of volunteers who do try their best to fight the good fight on behalf of you, the residents of Cheshire.  If you think the site is missing anything then please feel free to let us know by sending an email.