SLOWLY SLOWLY CEMEX & RUGBY OBSERVER

CEMENT FUEL PLAN SUBMITTED - Rugby Observer 2 October 2008
 
PRESS COMPLAINTS TO DECIDE - IS IT FACT, OR FICTION?

EDITORIAL, OR CEMEX ADVERTISMENT?
 
QUOTE:

"CEMEX has submitted a second planning application to build a plant which would turn much of Warwickshire's unrecyclable rubbish into a fuel for its cement plant.  The application for land known as MALPASS FARM next to the plant on Lawford Road was submitted this week and is a carbon copy of the one made for the company's quarry in SOUTHAM in August.
 
 
JUST ONE will be built, but CEMEX believes by seeking permission for both is the best way of seeing which one the public would prefer.  Ther Climafuel plant will cost £35 million and will employ 25 people at which ever site it is built at. It wil be up and running by 2010 if approved. It would see as much as 75 per cenet of unrecyclable household waste produced by the county's residents saved from landfill by being dried out, packed into blocks and then used to power the cement plant. The use of climafuel would reduce levels of CO2 equivalent to that produced by 72,000 cars in a year a company spokesman said. The plans will be on show to the Public outside CEMEX HOUSE in October 23 and 24 from 2pm to 6pm, and on October 25 from 10am to 2pm.
 
 
COMMENTS can be emailed to ian.southcott@cemex.com or sent by post to Ian Southcott, Community Affairs Manager, CEMEX UK, Evreux Way, Rugby Warwickshire CV21 2DT."

I would like to know whether this report, by an unidentified person, was in fact a paid advert by Cemex or a  VERY misleading  and MISINFORMING  article published by the  RUGBY OBSERVER  ?    But in either case surely no excuse can be made for misleading the public in this way?   If it was an advertisement then surely it should have said so?
 
WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL is asking for the comments during the  PUBLIC CONSULTATION  into the Cemex Malpass Parkfield Road planning application which ends on 21st October, but  in this apparent  Cemex advert it asks people to view the plans outside the Cemex House on October 23-24 from 2.00 to 6.00 pm and on 25th October from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm, and then asks them to send comments direct to Cemex as they claim they have put in the two applications at Southam and Rugby as "the best way of seeing which one the public would prefer."
 
The Report/Advert  is factually inaccurate, and misleading,   and ends by asking the public to email or post comments to Ian Southcott of Cemex, which is in itself misleading as comments must go to the County Council. This is exactly how Rugby Cement  operated as well, with a "hot line" to the plant so that the complaints can be dealt with by the management , discretely ,   by whatever means they "feel is  appropriate and beneficial to them",   with no-one knowing, and no public record  -   as they try to divide up the community.  
 
 
PUBLIC  ASKED TO COMMENT ON WHAT?
Rugby in Plume are offering a prize for the person who spots the most "deliberate mistakes" in  the article/advert, riddled with misinformation, which  makes no reference to the WCC web and public library where people can see the "actual"  application and Environmental Statement, or  pay £75 to Cemex for a copy, nor that the consultation closes on 21 October. What are the public supposed to coment on - the misleading information given in the Observer?  Are Cemex and the Rugby Observer making monkeys of Rugby residents - yet again?
 
 
CEMEX SHOULD WITHDRAW THIS AUDACIOUS UNSUSTAINABLE UNSUPPORTABLE RUGBY APPLICATION WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT!!

Shall we make a video like this in Rugby!?