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<DIV>The article was put together by me and Paul Antcliffe for a sheffield Indymedia article. Paul Antcliffe is a spokesman for Parkwood Landfill Concerned Residents Group. He is happy to have his contact details circulated and can be contacted on 0114 2762353 or <A href="mailto:paul@paulantcliffe.wanadoo.co.uk"><FONT color=#003399>paul@paulantcliffe.wanadoo.co.uk</FONT></A><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Helene<BR><BR><BR><B><I>W Su <jop04ws@sheffield.ac.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi,<BR><BR>Could you tell me how is the person who wrote "the Parkwood Landfill Expansion<BR>Proposals".<BR><BR>I am quite interested in the landfill issue and want to talk to people involved<BR>and get more information about what is going on.<BR><BR>Thanks and best,<BR><BR>Wei<BR><BR><BR><BR>Quoting g8-sheffield-request@lists.aktivix.org:<BR><BR>> Send g8-sheffield mailing list submissions to<BR>> g8-sheffield@lists.aktivix.org<BR>> <BR>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR>> http://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/g8-sheffield<BR>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>> g8-sheffield-request@lists.aktivix.org<BR>> <BR>> You can reach the person managing the list at<BR>> g8-sheffield-owner@lists.aktivix.org<BR>> <BR>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>>
than "Re: Contents of g8-sheffield digest..."<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Today's Topics:<BR>> <BR>> 1. Meeting is booked for the rutland 730 wed 3rd May:<BR>> (worldwarfree@riseup.net)<BR>> 2. 4th not 3rd! was: Re: [g8-sheffield] Meeting is booked for<BR>> the rutland 730 wed 3rd May: (Chris)<BR>> 3. yes thats the 4th.. (worldwarfree@riseup.net)<BR>> 4. Sorry to interupt but please read and pass on..<BR>> (worldwarfree@riseup.net)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 1<BR>> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 05:55:20 -0700<BR>> From: worldwarfree@riseup.net<BR>> Subject: [g8-sheffield] Meeting is booked for the rutland 730 wed 3rd<BR>> May:<BR>> To: g8-sheffield@lists.aktivix.org<BR>> Message-ID: <1115124920.427774b8235bc@mail.riseup.net><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Hello just to inform the meeting is booked for
Wed 3rd May 2005 at 730 @ the<BR>> Rutland Arms Brown St Sheffield.. Can we start a draft agenda? Mark rang me<BR>> last night seems the meeting then did not happen or did it? Anyhow thoughts<BR>> ideas for an aggenda over to you lot.. Ill bring the lap top and cds from<BR>> last<BR>> meeting ill make an effort sometime today to do draft notes from them.. Ill<BR>> allso bring the Working Groups list and of course Myself.. Did we all have a<BR>> good May Day then go danceing in the woods and hug some treas?<BR>> <BR>> Mozaz..<BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 2<BR>> Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:10:41 +0100<BR>> From: Chris <CHRIS@AKTIVIX.ORG><BR>> Subject: 4th not 3rd! was: Re: [g8-sheffield] Meeting is booked for<BR>> the rutland 730 wed 3rd May:<BR>> To: g8-sheffield@lists.aktivix.org<BR>> Message-ID: <20050503131041.GB6524@aktivix.org><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<BR>>
<BR>> Hi<BR>> <BR>> On Tue 03-May-2005 at 05:55:20AM -0700,<BR>> worldwarfree@riseup.net wrote:<BR>> > <BR>> > Hello just to inform the meeting is booked for Wed 3rd<BR>> > May 2005 at 730 @ the Rutland Arms Brown St Sheffield.<BR>> <BR>> I assume this is the 4th and not the 3rd :-)<BR>> <BR>> Chris<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Aktivix -- Free Software for a Free World<BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 3<BR>> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 06:50:34 -0700<BR>> From: worldwarfree@riseup.net<BR>> Subject: [g8-sheffield] yes thats the 4th..<BR>> To: g8-sheffield@lists.aktivix.org<BR>> Message-ID: <1115128234.427781aa55d46@mail.riseup.net><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<BR>> <BR>> wellcome to my world of mixing up dates no it is the 4th right time though<BR>> and<BR>> booked honest..<BR>> <BR>> mozaz<BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 4<BR>> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 03:37:07 -0700<BR>> From: worldwarfree@riseup.net<BR>> Subject: [g8-sheffield] Sorry to interupt but please read and pass<BR>> on..<BR>> To: g8-sheffield@lists.aktivix.org<BR>> Message-ID: <1115203027.4278a5d37bcf9@mail.riseup.net><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<BR>> <BR>> Local Residents Fight Parkwood Landfill Expansion<BR>> Proposals<BR>> <BR>> Proposals are being put before the council this week<BR>> for a massive enlargement of the Parkwood Landfill<BR>> site, allowing a substantial increase in capacity from<BR>> just 266,000 tonnes a year to a staggering 1 million<BR>> tonnes. The Parkwood Landfill site is on the edge of<BR>> Shirecliffe and overlooks many areas including<BR>> Hillsborough, Upperthorpe and Walkley. Local residents<BR>> are fighting these proposals and demanding a public<BR>> consultation.
However, their on going investigation<BR>> into the proposals is raising more questions than<BR>> answers. Residents are beginning to see a possible<BR>> link emerging between the new massive incinerator in<BR>> Sheffield, which is nearing completion, and the<BR>> proposals for the enlargement of the Parkwood Landfill<BR>> Site. If under these proposals the Parkwood landfill<BR>> site was to have its suspended special waste licence<BR>> reinstated, the expansion of the landfill site would<BR>> enable the ash from the new Bernard Roads incinerator<BR>> to be dumped there.<BR>> <BR>> In addition to the proposed expansion of the Parkwood<BR>> Landfill Site, Viridor, the operators of the site,<BR>> also want to build a gas utilisation and a leacheate<BR>> treatment plant within the area. (Leacheate is created<BR>> when water runs through a landfill site). Local<BR>> residents and environmental campaigners are concerned<BR>> that the
gas utilisation plant will be a hazardous<BR>> blot on the landscape until 2050 and that the leachate<BR>> treatment plant will be producing hazardous waste in<BR>> its treatment works until 2035. Campaigners report<BR>> that Viridor have approval from the Environment Agency<BR>> for these proposals and that permission will also be<BR>> sought to deposit the potentially toxic sludge in the<BR>> ground. This potential dumping of toxic sludge will<BR>> neither be confirmed nor denied by the Environment<BR>> Agency. Instead, the Agency insist until the sludge is<BR>> tested they will not know one way or another whether<BR>> the material is hazardous.<BR>> <BR>> On Friday 6th May (at a time yet to be arranged) these<BR>> proposals are going before the Sheffield Council<BR>> planning board. Campaigners believe that the local<BR>> council seems prepared to give Viridor's proposals the<BR>> go ahead. The local protest group, Parkwood
Landfill<BR>> Concerned Residents Group (backed by nearly 2000<BR>> signatures)want this planning decision to be delayed<BR>> until they have had a properly informed public debate.<BR>> The group met with the Environment Agency on Tuesday<BR>> 3rd of May to discuss problems and concerns over<BR>> Parkwood Landfill Site in advance of the planning<BR>> board meeting.<BR>> <BR>> It seems that Sheffield people have been repeatedly<BR>> mislead over the plans for the landfill site.<BR>> Initially people were told no waste would be dumped<BR>> near homes without a new planning application and<BR>> public consultation. However it appears that local<BR>> planning officers have processed these new proposals<BR>> under an old 1986 planning permission. In addition,<BR>> local people were promised this site would never be a<BR>> hazardous waste site again. This was after 7 tonnes<BR>> of industrial batteries, stored in a plastic
container<BR>> and with some containing lithium, exploded releasing<BR>> mercury into the air while people watched. In this<BR>> context local residents and action groups were told<BR>> the leachate facility was an environmentally friendly<BR>> reed bed based one and the gas facility was for<BR>> capturing the gas of bricks and building rubble - but<BR>> bricks are inert waste and do not produce landfill<BR>> gas! Many people have since bought houses in the area<BR>> under the belief that the Parkwood site was shortly<BR>> going to close, landscaped and made into a park and<BR>> golf course. This has not happened.<BR>> <BR>> One person has even photographed a large truck being<BR>> buried in the Parkwood site. Viridor were challenged<BR>> over this and reported that this was a legal activity.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Local Residents are subject to constant unpleasant<BR>> smells and noise that comes from the Parkwood Landfill<BR>>
site. Local people are worried that their health is<BR>> suffering as a result of pollution coming from the<BR>> landfill site. The health survey undertaken of the<BR>> area looked at just one in ten people. The result<BR>> didn't match the amount or forms of illnesses that<BR>> residents are seeing among their families and the<BR>> surrounding community. The community want regular<BR>> health monitoring for all the people in the area.<BR>> Concerns about the health impacts and a high reported<BR>> rate of cancer amongst people living in the area of<BR>> the Landfill site is said to be the reason why a few<BR>> years previously David Blunkett asked local MP Richard<BR>> Caborn to look into local people's concerns about the<BR>> site.<BR>> <BR>> For a bird's eye view of Parkwood Landfill site go to<BR>> the top of Standish Way in Shirecliffe and you will be<BR>> amazed.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------<BR>>
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