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Concerned residents in the area of North Somerset are ready for battle as they launch their second campaign against Stowey Quarry.
Oaktree Enviromental wants to store up to 645,000 ton of “stable non reactive hazardous waste” in the Stowey Quarry over the next ten years, including cancer causing asbestos. Protestors fear that this would be a dangerous development.
Protestors have a number of fears, the main one that asbestos particles could find their way into the nearby Chew Valley Lake, the main source of water for much of Bristol, North Somerset and North East Somerset.
They are also worried about the possibility of airborne asbestos particles affecting people’s health and an increase in the number of Lorries using the area’s country roads to and from the quarry.
Six recycling centres in Cumbria could be replaced by a mobile service, as part of an overhaul of the system.
Cumbria County Council said the move, which would save £2m, reflects a change in residents’ household waste disposal and recycling behaviour.
There would also be a cut to opening hours at the remaining centres, from seven days a week to five, although they would remain open at weekends.
The council would also introduce a charge to collect non-household waste.
This includes soil, rubble, asbestos, plasterboard and car tyres.
The six sites identified by the review as most suitable for closure are Ambleside, Brampton, Grange, Kirkby Stephen, Millom and Wigton.
A public consultation has begun and people have until 19 February to comment on the proposals.
Source: BBC News Cumbria
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A POTENTIALLY deadly substance has been discovered littered around a public site.
Sheets of asbestos, some of which were broken, were found strewn around the Anglesey Allotments, in Cambridge Street, and even sticking out of the ground.
When broken, dust from some types of asbestos can get into a person’s lungs and cause serious respiratory problems and even death.
East Staffordshire Borough Council currently owns the land, but is in the process of transferring ownership to Anglesey Parish Council.
Concerned Anglesey resident Andy Biddulph raised the presence of the asbestos at the monthly parish council meeting.
Bags of asbestos and large sheets have been illegally dumped in two areas of Leicester.
The waste was found on Freeman Road North in early November and a week later more was discovered at Thurnby Lodge Boys Club on Thurncourt Road.
In both cases, corrugated asbestos waste was found in large sheets or smashed up and sealed in plastic bags.
Leicester City Council’s environmental crime team said it was investigating.
‘Unlikely’ health treats:
Councillor Sarah Russell, one of the assistant city mayors, said if the asbestos material discovered was not disturbed by the public, it was “unlikely” to have any health implications to people.
A legal challenge has begun to stop asbestos waste being dumped next to one of the south west’s largest reservoirs.
Chew Valley Lake is in North Somerset, and is one of Bristol’s main water sources. However, Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) Council has allowed the waste to be dumped in Stowey Quarry, which falls in their authority control but is next to the reservoir.
A campaign has been launched against the decision, and those against it say they will continue their fight.
Sarah Streatfield-James is from the Stop Stowey Quarry Asbestos Landfil campaign, she has told us they want B&NES to revoke the planning permission: “We fundamentally believe that the site is wrong.
THE thought asbestos could leak into our water supply is horrifying.
Councillors in Bath have approved plans to dump thousands of tonnes of the toxic substance in a quarry near Chew Valley Lake.
That Bristol Water believes the plan presents a real danger to the drinking water for the city and its surrounding area is a huge concern.
Shockingly, Bristol Water says none of the reports presented to Bath and North East Somerset’s councillors fully explained the proximity of its reservoir to the old quarry, or the potential effect on springs flowing into the lake, even though it supplies water to tens of thousands of homes.
Residents were horrified when they spotted the corrugated metal covered in asbestos – a material proven to cause serious illness like lung cancer – abandoned in Newland Road, Hornsey, at the back of Campsbourne Primary School, on Wednesday, August 17.
The fly tippers, branded “irresponsible” by neighbours who feared children would not know to keep away, left a note attached warning passers by of the asbestos.
Lesley Ramm, of nearby Campsfield Road, said: “What type of person would dump lethal asbestos on a housing estate near to a school and crèche?
“How irresponsible – just to save the cost of paying a qualified person to safely remove the asbestos.
“This takes fly tipping to a new low.”
A Cornwall haulage and skip hire boss has been handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years, for illegally tipping asbestos waste in an area of “outstanding natural beauty”.
In an Environment Agency (EA) prosecution at Truro Crown Court, Michael Leah, director of Penzance-based Leah Ltd – which has gone into liquidation – was also ordered to pay £50,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act plus £4,000 costs.
During 2007 and 2008, Leah had illegally dumped waste, including asbestos, at three separate sites including two farms and a residential property in St Ives.
The court was told how about 9,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste were dumped at Trenoweth Farm, Gweek over a six-month period in 2007 and 2008.
Leah said he had only deposited three lorry loads of subsoil at Trenoweth Farm, but was unable to verify this by supplying the relevant waste transfer notes.
A total of five other hauliers had earlier pleaded guilty to illegally depositing and disposing of controlled waste at Trenoweth Farm in contravention of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
A GROUP of hauliers and the director of a skip hire company have been ordered to pay almost £100,000 in fines and costs for illegally tipping thousands of tonnes of waste at a farm near Helston in Cornwall.
Truro Crown Court heard the offenders had dumped around 9,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste at Trenoweth Farm, Gweek.
In addition to fines and costs, they were ordered to pay back profits they had made from their criminal activities under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Michael Leah, received a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £50,000 under Proceeds of Crime plus £4,000 costs.
At the time of the offences, Leah was director of a haulage and skip hire company and operated a licensed Waste Transfer Station at Ludgvan near Penzance. Waste was taken to the transfer station for sorting before being sent off for recycling, reuse or disposal.
An investigation by the Environment Agency revealed that during 2007 and 2008 Leah had illegally dumped waste, including asbestos, at three separate sites including two farms and a residential property at St Ives.
A group of West Cornwall hauliers and director of a skip hire company have been ordered to pay nearly £100,000 in fines and costs for illegally tipping thousands of tonnes of waste at a farm near Helston.
The case was brought by the Environment Agency.
The dumping of approximately 9,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste at Trenoweth Farm, Gweek, culminated, this week, in the operators of five local haulage companies appearing at Truro Crown Court for sentencing.
In addition to fines and costs, offenders were ordered to pay back profits they had made from their criminal activities under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Main offender, Michael Leah, received a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £50,000 under Proceeds of Crime plus £4,000 costs.
At the time of the offences Michael Leah was director of a haulage and skip hire company and operated a licensed Waste Transfer Station at Ludgvan near Penzance. Waste was brought to the transfer station for sorting before being sent off for recycling, reuse or disposal.
More than 50 bags of asbestos have been dumped near a fishpond on Gelligaer Common in Caerphilly county.
Environment Agency Wales launched an investigation after a member of the public reported the find to Caerphilly council.
It said the material did not present a danger to human health, wildlife or pollution to the pond, and some was even bagged correctly.
The clean-up is likely to cost thousands of pounds, it added.
An agency spokesperson said: “It seems as if the people who did this knew what they were doing in terms of bagging the material. To then simply dump it like this is completely irresponsible.
Two fly-tippers dumped 30 tons of asbestos in South Staffordshire countryside leaving a would-be employee to carry the can when they were spotted, a court heard.
The low-loader used was in the name of 20-year-old Oliver Franklin from Dudley, who signed as the registered owner on the promise of a driver’s job which never materialised.
He believed the pair when they said the vehicle had to be registered to him for him to drive it, he told the court.
Ali Tabari, prosecuting on behalf of South Staffordshire Council, said dog-walker Cyril Heathcock was suspicious when he saw a wagon loaded with rubbish, topped with a mattress, parked up on a bridle path in Himley as he took a stroll on May 13 last year.
When he returned to the scene a few minutes later, he saw the tipper offloading the pile onto the path where it had been joined by a skip lorry, Cannock Magistrates Court heard.
Mr Heathcock memorised the registration plate, and contacted the council. Officers found the padlock on the gate had been cut and two piles of rubbish dumped, one a 30-ton mound of hazardous asbestos and the other 40 tons of mixed builders’ waste.
A pile of asbestos is still laying in a village – more than six months after it was dumped, residents claim.
Frustrated villagers in Sutton Gault, near Ely, are demanding that the asbestos sheeting, which was left by flytippers last year, is removed.
They say the harmful material was dumped near their homes in November and that it has not yet been removed as East Cambs District Council and the Environment Agency cannot come to an agreement about whose responsibility it is.
However, both authorities insist the pile discarded in November was cleared and that the existing asbestos is a new pile, dumped more recently.
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