Yet another coating of so-called "dust"! And if it has come from Cemex what toxic chemicals are likely to be in that "dust", absorbed onto the particulate, seeing as how they are experimenting with an increasing quantity of unspecified substitute wastes as fuels, and a mixture of industrial wastes as substitutes for the originally permitted raw materials. These experiments, and other damaging changes, are all going on "behind our backs", with no data made available, and the so-called "Environment" Agency has refused to talk to the the Rugby Cement Community Forum since July 2007, while the RCCF itself is never informed about the continuous changes, and breaches of the permit, and about health-damaging emissions. We have to dig out the information from the EA's PUBLIC REGISTER which the Rugby Council Environmental Health Department has, by Law, to keep, but for which they "only act as file-clerks", and officers proudly admit that they do not read or act upon the reports and pollution incidents recorded in it.

On top of this now Cemex wish to build a half million tonne a year waste processing plant on Parkfield Road, and to have two new furnaces, to rain down a further about 20 tonnes an hour of "polluted emissions" from a new 45 metre stack, onto the Avon Valley School area where the PM2.5 health-damaging particles have, for some unknown reason, doubled in the 3 years since these "Cemex trials" began. Newbold and New Bilton are areas of multiple deprivation and lower life expectancy and lesser life-chances, and are subject, like Lawford, to a high number of exceedences of the daily air quality objective for PM10 particulate, as well as high "background" levels of pollution. At Cemex Davenport USA they closed the plant after the cement world shock revelation that the substitute wastes for raw materials apparently caused toxic cancer-causing chromium VI dust ten times that permitted to be found downwind in the local schools and homes. The UK's En

Have any Rugby residents checked the infant mortality rates in Rugby's electoral wards?

I live in Bowbrook ward. Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough, and there's an incinerator in that ward. The 2002-2007 infant death rate in Bowbrook ward is 15.2 deaths per 1,000 live births which is higher than any in London electoral ward for same set of data.

I bet you've all read about the Shrewsbury lass who's expecting conjoined twins. Spare a though for those who live near incinerators & have had to bury their babies. You should also be aware that proximity to incinerators is associated with increased risk of twnning.

The Environment Agency do not want anyone to be aware of adverse health effects of airborne pollution from industrial sources & that's why they made sure that their own Board Member, Alan Dalton, got the sack for blowing the whistle on them in his August 2001 report to Michael Meacher MP "Just who does the Environment Agency protect?"

Nelson, Lancs, is downwind of Castle Cement's Clitheroe plant and the "Nelson" wards in Pendle Borough have very high rates of infant mortality.

Kind regards,

Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury