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CEMEX UNDER FIRE

RUGBY ADVERTISER SAYS: BLACK-BALLED!
COMMUNITY BANNED FROM COMMUNITY FORUM!

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY QUANGO SAY NO TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION!
The Environment Agency has paid £25,000 plus to take the community out of the community forum.
To become a member of this new "forum" (first meeting 9 September) all that is required is: ignorance; agreement; subservience; compliance, and just a modicum of adoration.
Plus an ability to accept "gifts" to recompense the select few.

GANG OF SEVEN?
Cemex's Ian Southcott: the Environment Agency's David Hudson (the officer involved since the unlawful permitting process began in 1995); Warwickshire County Council's "planner" Ian Grace: and part-timer Rugby Borough Council's Sean Lawson all combined with Cllr Claire Watson Borough and County Conservative Long Lawford; Roy Sandison Community rep against burning tyres (Green Party New Bilton); new-comer never been to any meetings Tom Mahoney RBC Newbold councillor; and Diane Pask (used to be Labour. then Lib Dem, then nothing - and of no elected position and having no constituency - lives in Brownsover - coated in coal dust) refuse to allow any of the previous long-standing members of the community to attend the Forum.
Quote: "we don't want anyone who knows anything, or anyone who can read and find out anything!" Unquote. Still after many months of asking they refuse to name the "chosen few".


REFUSE DERIVED FUEL
stored at Cemex goes up in smoke - IN SMOKELESS ZONE - burning for 2 days in June, with 5 fire engines in attendance. Closed nearby industrial estate and offices as the public were exposed to smoke. How does this bode for the planned Rugby Cemex plant where 300,000 tonnes of RDF are to be manufactured from 500,000 tonnes of commercial, industrial and a little household waste - imported from all over? That planning permission granted by WCC has still not been signed, so maybe they better change their minds - or risk poisoning and poluting the Rugby air even more?

EYE-SORE!
BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN magazine says: Pull down the Cemex plant in Rugby - its in top ten of the worst eye-sores in the UK.

CEMEX DEBTS:
How many noughts is that?!

BYKER AGAIN?
HAZARDOUS WASTE BYPASS DUST DIVERTED via BI-PRODUCTS RECOVERY SERVICE ! No IPPC permit necessary - no landfill tax due if BPD is spread on the land in Cumbria and Lancashire. Of course they use Environment Agency exemptions to escape any controls and regulation - and they claim they "wash it", and do what with the leachate? chr

SMELL A RAT IN RUGBY!

CONSERVATIVE RUGBY BOROUGH COUNCIL AT CENTRE OF ROW as the council leader, Craig Humprey, decides to take over the role of Chief Executive as well. Only to "save money" you understand? No application, no advert - no equal opportunities - no qualifications necessary. Surely this is maladministration? Meanwhile the meetings are held in secret and Humphrey's pay packet is not disclose4d even to the councillors.
Smell a rat?