Technically, it has already gone to Court! But looks set to drag on...

This proves the hypocracy of this government. On one hand they're trying to snoop through our waste & fine people for putting the wrong stuff in the wrong bin & not recycling enough, and on the other hand they want to build a huge poluting incinerator? We should be shutting these things down, not building more! Now I'm not your typical apocalyptic omg the Earth is heating up fanatic, but I do beleive toxins in the air do effect human and animal health in far worse ways than we are aware of to date.

The climate has changed for millions of years, and will continue to do so regardless of what humans are doing. However we know we are poisoning our air & water, the very essence of our life. Maybe some of the older folk might like to comment on what smog was like before the clean air act came in?

Also we need to examine the wate we are throwing away, I blame the big companies and their ever increasing obsession with plastic. Everything you buy these days will contain some sort of non important plastic packaging. Most food items are under 3 layers of it! How the hell did we keep our food safe in the days before plastic? It's a wonder we made it this far without the stuff.

A member of the public wanting to see how public money is spent? How dare they!

Will Shlomo Dowen be letting any Councillors or Dr Chris Kenny of Notts County PCT see a copy of the letter to me from Justin McCracken, CEO of the Health Protection Agency, which admits to no studies of rates of illness or premature health at electoral ward level around any incinerator?

That letter of 8 June 2009 means that the words written by Dr Chris Kenny to Cllr Chris Winterton in the letter of 14 April 2008 are meaningless.

The HPA have done no studies and so their advice to Primary Care Trusts that incinerators will not cause significant harm to human health is worthless.

Wake up Rainworth and start asking the public health professionals who you are bankrolling to admit that they've been asleep on the job with regard to the incinerator issue.

Take a look at the ten-year infant mortality rates for Wolverhampton's electoral wards, 1998-2007 where Tettenhall Wightwick has rate of 1.3 per 1,000 live births and is sited upwind of incinerator.

The rate in Fallings Park ward is 13.5 per 1,000, which is ten-times higher and Fallings Park "just happens to be" downwind of the incinerator with a SW wind.

There's plenty of incinerators and other industrial sources around which to examine infant mortality rates and other health parameters but the Health Protection Agency isn't bothering & neither are the Environment Agency. The PCTs have paid contracts with the Health Protection Agency for "expert" advice and are throwing your money down the drain and your health will follow when Rainworth incinerator gets built.

Kind regards,

Michael Ryan BSc, C Eng, MICE,
Shrewsbury

see Local Health Studies Myth Debunked
http://ukwin.org.uk/2009/07/24/local-health-studies-myth-debunked/
Researcher and health campaigner Mike Ryan has raised the alarm after receiving a letter from Justin McCracken. In the letter, the Chief Executive of the Health Protection Agency (HPA) admits that they have not studied the rate of illness or premature deaths at electoral ward level around any incinerator.

What effect will today's court decision re the Corby pollution affect this application?
I trust Shlomo has it in mind!