New Grundon Incinerator far worse than Heathrow Expansion
Subject: New Grundon Incinerator far worse than Heathrow Expansion
The Climate Change activitists seem to have over-looked the greatest
threat of pollution around Heathrow. The pollution from this alone
will make that from any expansion of the airport pale into
insignificance.
This is the new MASSIVE Grundon Incinerator due to come online very
soon. It will burn domestic household waste, industrial waste, AND
also low radioactive medical waste. It has been built just upwind of
the 5 Heathrow Villages so that all of the pollution from this,
including the microscopic particles of radiotactive dust, will blow
towards the residents, including Hayes and all towns west. Expect a
rise in cancers amongst residents from now on.
CJB
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This is what we can look forwards to:
Daily Mail - Your Health - 25 January 2005
Air pollution is seriously damaging people's health, experts warned.
But just how bad is the problem and what can you do to protect
yourself?
By Martin Halle and Hilary Freeman
** I'm sure incinerators caused my son's death. **
Retired civil engineer MICHAEL RYAN, 55, lives in Shropshire with his
wife Marilyn, also 55. He is convinced the deaths of his son and
elderly mother were caused by pollution from local incinerators. He
has two surviving sons, Stephen, 28, and Philip, 17.
In June 1995, our .son David, then 16, was diagnosed with leukemia.
He
was lucky enough to receive a bone marrow transplant from a donor but
his immune system was weakened and he caught pneumonia. In March
1999,
I sat by his hospital bed and watched him take his last breath. He
was
19.
Only a year earlier, David had insisted on going to his grandmother's
- my mother's - funeral. She, too, had died from leukemia, at 78.1
discovered that another boy in David's class ha died of leukemia and
there were several other local cases. That's when I started thinking
there must be' a connection.
But it wasn't' until 2001, when I bumped into one of the haematology
nurses who; had treated David, that I thought there could be a link
with our local hospital incinerator. Only three-quarter of a mile
from
our home, the incinerator had burned radioactive waste from 1975
until
its closure in 1995 when new regulations were imposed.
Could the particles it released into the atmosphere have caused
David's leukaemia? Could it have caused my son Stephen's ME-like
illness, which resulted in the loss of three years of his education?
My mother didn't live close to me, but her home - in Erith, South
London - was also close to an incinerator.
I began to investigate and realised my family tragedy was being
repeated across the country. I discovered several scientific reports
linking childhood cancers, birth defects and other diseases to
pollutants from incinerators.
I learned that many European countries have banned the burning of
radioactive waste. Instead, it is buried, encased in concrete.
There's
no reason why the UK can't dispose of its waste safely. Children
should not be at risk.
date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:42:34 -0700
author: CJB
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