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Published Date: 25 June 2009
Plans for an incinerator in Calvert are facing increased
opposition from local residents with more than 1,200 now having signed a Downing Street petition against the plant.
The campaign, run by local protest group Stop Aylesbury Vale Incineration (Savi), has won the backing of such influential people as Lord Rothschild and Lord Buckingham, chair of the Conservative Party in Bucks.

Although the planning application has not yet been formally submitted, the proposals have caused uproar among neighbouring
villages, including Quainton and Edgcott, with opposition
snowballing over several months.

With Bucks County Council facing tough landfill quotas, and taxes on landfill due to rise steeply next year, the council is being forced to look at other solutions for disposing of rubbish.

Savi is now planning a protest rally in Aylesbury, which is likely to be held in Kingsbury Square, on July 11.

The group has also been offered a meeting with BCC before a decision is made on the successful candidate, although a date has yet to be fixed.

In a statement, Councillor Martin Tett, cabinet member for planning and the environment, called on the campaigners to listen to both sides of the incineration argument, saying energy from waste was a tried and tested technology, filtering out almost 100 per cent of potentially harmful emissions.

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  • Last Updated: 25 June 2009 11:58 AM
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Michael Ryan,

Shrewsbury 27/06/2009 11:30:29
Is Councillor Tett aware that the Health Protection Agency's Chief Executive, Justin McCracken, has admitted in his letter to me dated 8 June 2009 that "the reason that we (ie the Health Protection Agency) have not studied the rates of illness or premature deaths at electoral ward level around any incinerator is that the number of people around an incinerator is too small to detect whether or not the incinerator is having an impact on health.".

If Cllr Tett asks Surrey County Council to send him copies of the articles about the Health Protection Agency's failure to examine relevant data around incineratprs that were reported in both the Surrey Mirror and the Dorking Advertiser on 22 May 2008, he'll realise that the spin that he's been swallowing on alleged non-health effects of incinerators is based on a lack of data to back it up.

I'm sure that Cllr Tett will be interested in finding out the truth about health impact of incinerators and other industrial sources of PM2.5 emissions and I suggest that he asks Dr Dick van Steenis to explain the facts to him and his colleagues at Bucks County Council.

If incinerators don't harm health, as believed by Cllr Tett, why hasn't he asked for data which confirms his belief?

More inforration at www.ukhr.org

Kind regards,

Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury
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