Published Date:
15 February 2008
IN 2005 Paul Dainton was dragged out of a planning meeting and arrested for making a peaceful protest in Wakefield Town Hall over the refusal to enforce previously granted planning permission stating that a gas utilisation plant must be built at Welbeck.
Welbeck management, the Environment Agency and Wakefield Council planning had reneged on a promise that the plant would be built in 2003.
At that public meeting, Welbeck management assured everyone that the gas plant would be built and connected to the national grid by 2007. Dainton said this would not be the case and also produced a report from Welbeck management contractors, which stated the gas flare-off at the toxic tip was not meeting all BSI standards even at that time. Dainton was correct.
How the Environment Agency and the council can now claim they were surprised that no gas plant was built by 2007 and that they did not know that the gas flaring and collection system was totally inadequate, is beyond belief. After hundreds of confirmed breaches of licence conditions during 10 years, with no legal action, it is time that the relationship between Welbeck management, the EA, and the council was investigated by the government.
Mr L Isherwood,
Beech Grove,
Normanton
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Last Updated:
15 February 2008 9:33 AM
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Source:
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Location:
Wakefield
