RE-PORTSKEWETT waste plant. An officer from Monmouthshire County Council has reported that no significant adverse environmental effects will result from this proposed development.
How on earth can lorries making a round journey of 35+ miles, day after day, week after week, month after month, year in year out - pumping out diesel particulate pollutants and travelling through rural village infrastructure not have adverse detrimental environmental effects?
The council has failed miserably to take on board the wider environmental considerations.
Surely environmentally, all waste should be processed as close as possible to source i.e. Avonmouth. Similarly, Natural Resource Wales reports that air emissions are not likely to be significant. So why are two 15.5 metre chimneys needed to pump the emissions high into the atmosphere?
Fortunately in contrast to these completely flawed comment, Monmouthshire County Councils review commissioning more experienced experts in the field - Air Quality Consultants - identified major air quality issues to the development. Let’s trust our councillors on the planning committee to take on board the publics` total opposition to this proposal, which is: unwanted, unrequired and environmentally completely unacceptable.
Dennis Boyett
Castle Lea
Caldicot
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