Please Sign The Online Petition – It Takes Less Than A Minute

The online petition makes a valueable addition to our cause. Please sign it.  Although the petition is worthwhile, be aware that it is more important to send a personal objection letter.  If you can do both, this would be great.

Here’s how:

Attention Human Receptors, Prepare To Be Assimilated By The Use Of Educational Techniques.

Someone is Telling Porkies

Someone is Telling Porkies

As seen through-out  Sky Properties’ approach to the residents of Salford,  they continue to place little value on the communities concerns or health. While refering to residents as “Human Receptors”, they state in their application’s Non-Technical Summary that locals will be subjected to  “educational techniques”.

The only educational techniques we are interested in are the one’s where Sky provides accurate information and reveals all the facts, which they have failed to do so far. Sky’s reporting of facts as they see them continues to be from another planet.

Here is the Non-Technical Summary document included with the application:

Non-Technical Summary

This paints a very rosy picture of what is proposed and continues to roll out the same tired messages.  I think my favourite quote is “the perceived image of the proposed waste facilities on the local communities can be deemed as not being a major concern”. 1500 people on Facebook, several thousand petition signatures and a serious amount of objection letters will beg to differ.

Earth to Sky Properties, prepare to have your application abducted and dissected. Every paragraph, sentence and word will be challenged. Please stop insulting the intelligence of the “Human Receptors” in Salford.

How to Object – My 7 Year Old Daughter Speaks Her Mind

This letter isn’t the only thing that appears to be Mickey Mouse about this application.

If a 7 year old girl can make a clearly understood objection, so can the rest of us. Let’s keep those objections rolling in. Proud of my litte’un.

The Sky Application Has Been Submitted – Campaign Meeting Scheduled – 2pm Sat 24th July – Queen’s Arms

We’ll be meeting to bring everyone back together and to discuss the strategy for responding to the application.

The application has come in the form of two seperate applications, most sharing the same documents. You can find out more here:

http://publicaccess.salford.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_searchform.aspx

Application numbers:

10/59093/OUTEIA

10/59092/FULEIA

Time to get stuck in. We need all hands to the pumps. See you there.

Even More Traffic Troubles – Traffic Accident at Sky Site

Just two days after a HGV got stuck under the Green Lane rail bridge, the road has continued to experience traffic issues.  Around 3pm today a car veered off the road and crash directly into the fence surrounding the proposal incineration site. We don’t believe there were any fatalities at this time.

These pictures were taken after the police had cordoned off the road and removed the vehicle.  This is one of several accidents to have happened on Green Lane.  This campaign has maintained from the start that there are serious access issues for the site and that the sharp bend on which it is placed is difficult to navigate.

The vehicle involved here was a car, we can only speculate what damage would have been caused by a 40 tonne waste truck failing to navigate the bend.

This is further evidence that traffic calming measures are required along Green Lane and Canal Bank. Adding an additional 160 HGVs to the already risk ridden road would only exacerbate existing traffic problems.  When will Sky Properties begin to see sense? We must wait and see.

Access Problems Continue to Mar Green Lane Industrial Prospects – HGV Stuck Under Bridge – Again

Yesterday, access problems continued to disrupt industrial activity on Green Lane as a HGV got stuck under the low rail bridge sited near the Queen’s Arms public house.

The stuck HGV managed to block traffic bound from Patricroft to Monton for over 25 minutes Continue reading

Campaign Update – May 2010

In recent months there has been much activity around various events, elections and communications.  The campaign continues to gather pace with the largest number of members since we started 6 months ago. As it stands, we continue to remain vigilant, gather information and act where necessary to oppose the Eco Park nightmare.  To keep everyone informed, please find a breakdown of the main activity and where we stand today.

Community Liaison Group (CLG)

On January 25th, Sky Properties tried to hold a “consultation” meeting with a cherry picked number of residents to discuss their proposal in more depth.  Sky are legally obliged to do this as part of the application process and the more “consultation” they can claim they have provided, the better standing they believe the application for their waste plant will have.  The Say No campaign refused to let this happen quietly behind closed doors and invited the public to the meeting, eventually forcing Sky to open the doors to all interested parties. Continue reading

Energos Isle of Wight Plant Fails Dioxin and Furan Emissions Tests

The facts continue to refute Energos’ claim regarding the emissions from their incinerators.

Energos marketing collateral regularly and boldly claims that the emissions from Energos’ plants are less than 2% of the permitted EU limit for Waste Incineration.  Nick Dawber (Energos MD) recently reiterated this claim in the public meeting at the Monton House Hotel on January 25 2010.  Stating that emissions from the plants are 1-2% of the EU limit.

Earlier this year, we released figures from the Environment Agency report on the Energos Isle of Wight plant that clearly show the reality. In some cases, the reality being that the actual emissions are up to 400 times more than those presented in the Energos literature. Here are the figures released for October 2009:

The recently released tests show that the plant continues to emit dangerous levels of emissions, exceeding the permitted EU limits on Dioxins/Furans by more than 8 times:

Continued failures at the plant had led to it only operating for 58 days between 1st January 2010 and 30th Arpil 2010. While Sky and Energos continue in their attempts to mislead and manipulate their figures, we will continue to seek the truth.  Here it is in black and white. We will not have the wool pulled over our eyes.

Anthony O’Connor Application “Refused” – Council Slams Door on Waste Processing at Green Lane.

Anthony O’Connor’s application to change the use of his site on Green Lane to a “Waste Transfer Station” has been rejected.

The O’Connor application was quietly submitted late last year, without public consultation, and represented what would clearly be a foot in the door for waste processing on Green Lane.  The application was rejected on the following criteria:

a) There was not enough evidence to demonstrate the need for a waste centre contrary to the Council’s policy on  Planning for sustainable waste management.

b) There was insufficient information provided to enable the local authority to decide whether the development would have an unacceptable impact on the amenity of residents contravening several other Council policies.

c) Not enough evidence was submitted to enable the authority to decide whether the development would have an unacceptable impact on the nature conservation of the Bridgewater Canal. Putting the application at direct odds with the redevelopment of the Bridgewater Canal Master Plan.

Sky Properties will be paying particular attention to this application.  The community and this action group remain open to discussion on alternaive uses for the Mitchell Shackleton site. Unfortunately, Sky continue to ignore the community and push forward in their attempt to steamroll through the “Eco Incinerator” and their “Eco Park”.

The O’Connor decision may be subject to appeal, so we will wait and make best efforts to continue to oppose this and the Sky Proposal at every step, turn and corner.

Canoeists Take Full Advantage of Recent Bridgewater Masterplan Developments

Ongoing progress has been made on the Bridgewater regeneration activities.  The recent clear-up and resurfacing of the canal side has attracted more than increased wildlife activity to the area.  This Saturday morning two canoeists navigated the side of Canal Bank, passing the proposed waste site.  The Bridgewater Masterplan is gathering pace and visibility in the community and it is expected that more people will be attracted to the waterside as improvements continue.

Sky’s waterside waste dumping and incineration proposal makes an interesting contrast to the fantastic work already achieved in the Canal regeneration project.  Let’s hope the positive developments continue to attract further visitors and activity of this kind. The waste proposal must be stopped as it is clearly at odds with the objectives of regenerating the areas in proximity to the Canal.  The Bridgewater Canal Masterplan should continue to receive our full support in improving the quality of life in Eccles and Salford.