Dear Sir
Readers may have seen the leaflet distributed by Fornax to houses in our area, in its efforts to get the community on board with its incinerator plant. Readers may also have spotted the contradictory statements that high temperature will obliterate any harmful substances but there will be emissions of harmful substances.
To support their claim that emissions of the harmful substances will have ‘no significant impact on local air quality’, they say ‘NOx gas, including dioxins and furans, released each year will be the same as from a single diesel HGV doing 20,000 miles a year’.What is missing is any explanation of how that comparison was arrived at. There is no footnote referring to scientific evidence as a source for that, for example.
This is important because Fornax is using this information to persuade people that the plant is safe. Indeed, councillors from Heighington Parish recently visited the plant and are quoting the ‘facts’ given by Fornax in order to allay what they describe as residents’ ‘false concerns’.
So, Mr Jones, let’s have some scientific evidence to back up your stats.
Yours faithfully,
Eileen Brewis.