Event 2nd May Westbury Market Place
French Market supplied by March'e de France
Dear French Twinned Companions
Do you have an English company in your community ? No. Well we had a French Company operating in our town
Or should we say we did. The global financial meltdown has meant cut backs and closures in industrial terms for many and large industries are not exempt. Our Lafarge Westbury Plant has been mothballed.
Is this another word for closure ?
Well we are afraid not. It means the company can evade their responsibilities of making safe the plant, quarry and chimney until a date yet to be decided
Would you accept this if it was an English company in your community ?
I feel not but only you can decide if there is any justice in this approach.
If you can identify with our concerns would you please help us by lobbying your politicians in France so we can regain the Bratton Valley back to the type of condition which would mean we have a public amenity again. This is what we had before the industry came to Westbury.
At the moment the quarry is not in the type of condition our Environment Agency or local planners would consider safe so it has been fenced in as if this is satisfactory.
Please consider the beauty of our community and the things that impact on it and revise how important national standards are.
Thank You
24th April 2009
Dear
Readers,
The
Lafarge mothballing has been allowed by politicians and
their county officers and this is a situation that can go
on for years to come.
Politicians
allow this because in a self serving way they hope for the
plant to reopen. Technically that would prove very costly
and with the current sector forecasts that is not on any
horizon for years to come. Lafarge have told them this.
Also with current carbon reductions obligated at a figure
of 80% by 2050 there is no place for existing cement
manufacture in the future. It's unsustainable and therefore
the politicians should be insisting on magnesium silicate
replacement for cement as it is currently produced. This
would make Westbury redundant as a manufacturing
base.
In
this case the company should give a very clear indication
of their closure intentions as soon as possible with a
deadline for this decision.
What
is important is that the company has to place on the public
register how they would close the plant. This means how
they would decommission the chimney and plant and
reinstate the quarries and field into a fit state for
public amenity use. I have already asked why the quarry was
allowed to get into such a state that more land had to
sacrificed to make the quarry safefrom the planning
authorities but they have ignored this
question
Mothballing
means we are reliant on wardens and fencing/bunding to keep
this safe for those years to come. I find that to be
irresponsible although technically the company is abiding
by what is allowed, I just hope that we do not rue the day
if adventure-some youth go seeking thrills in a restricted
area. I here clearly remember my own youthtime
activities.
Yours
Faithfully,
David
Levy
TATWBN
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Dear
People of Westbury and Surrounding
Communities
As
of April 2009 the kilns at Westbury Lafarge will be no
longer be producing cement. The site will be used as a
distribution centre with cement railed in and then lorried
out to existing and future commitments.
The
kilns will be mothballed and not reused as incinerators for
Wiltshire Waste this was confirmed by Chris Ettery Lafarge
spokesman.
Staff
will be laid off in the same manner as previous
professional redundancies at the plant and in this current
climate that means we send our concern out to those staff
for their futures.
Lafarge
retain the options to reopen production at a later
date
Lafarge
retain the right to extract minerals from their licensed
sites but quarrying from the new field on the White Horse
Escarpment is not invisaged; and assurances that the chalk
will not be shipped out to other cement plants has been
given by Chris Ettery.
This
is the latest news from the plant
David
Levy
February
5th 2009
The Town
Council meeting consolidated random reports of
plume
grounding and has
been forwarded to the Agenda of both the Environment Agency
and also Health Authorities for discussion and if
pursuaded, action.
Our
Network is seeking for the use of LIDAR to follow up on the
plume grounding situation
and
also seeks to
Have
clarification on whether AMESA/DMS dioxin extractive
testing systems can operate during start up and shut down
when BS EN 1948 cannot and if so whether we can get these
systems operational to gain more data for our understanding
of true emission position at the Westbury Cement
Plant.
I would
like to thank all those who have contributed to our website
and more importantly to our divine creator for his
oversight in these matters. He placed me here to do what I
can and it is only his will that will
happen.
The
TATWBN needs you. Only genuine experiences of plume
grounding need apply but we are open to your contributions
now. Not only that but we must have your photos of the
emissions for our Plume of the Year. So far we have
pictures with times and dates when emissions appear outside
of the chimney and on the Liaison Agendas we must have
recourse to where this data is stored or to know if it is
even monitored. Other pictures on our website
show a
strata like appearance of these
emissions travelling along the escarpment and even acting
like a crescent by doubling back on themselves. All this
data is evidence of what happens when emissions are allowed
to vent direct from chimney to disperse into our
environment,
Our
Network is there for you but I emphasise that it must be
based on science and all evidence will be forwarded to the
agencies that should be there for public health. I do
believe there are people in post who share this
conviction.
Yours
Sincerely,
David
Levy
Chair TATWBN
Is the time for any contact details from people who have
suffered plume grounding I need names and those who
are
prepared to go
public
David
Levy
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