This latest exposure by the Express about the horrendous carbon emissions already allowed to be pumped into our environment without any legal action is criminal!
We expect the Environment Agency and our elected MPs and councillors to ensure that we have protection from such deadly contaminants.
One constantly reads about pods of congenital abnormalities around landfill sites and would imagine that gas emissions and their trace elements could easily be the cause of such birth defects. One could also imagine the effects to people with breathing problems, particularly the elderly and children.
How can it be that we have to rely on environmental groups such as Rats to bring this to the public's attention when we are supposed to have such organisations as the Environment Agency and Wakefield Council's environmental health department?
It is time that we recognised that the Environment Agency is there to pamper to the will of the waste industry and who will do or say anything as an excuse not to prosecute these global polluters on our behalf.
It is time that MPs and Wakefield Council recognised the contribution made by Rats to protecting our environment, for one thing is certain, without its environmental work and exposure of such polluting schemes, such as Welbeck, by the time we would be aware of these horrendous crimes it would be too late to take remedial action.
The Environment Agency must act now and prosecute immediately.
Bob Ryan
Pannal Avenue, off Ivy Lane Eastmoor