Victory for neighbours as waste wood burning ends
Wednesday 13th January 2010, 2:30PM GMT.
Sheelagh and Brian Niles’s smoke and toxic fume fears should now be over. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0899738)
A Royal Court order was imposed on the company yesterday after a Health and Social Services Department action over the nuisance caused by smoke and ash.
Island Waste has now said it will stop all burning at the depot.
This news has delighted neighbours, including Brian and Sheelagh Niles.
They couple bought their house almost three years ago and have been campaigning against burning ever since.
‘We are so hugely, hugely, relieved,’ said Mrs Niles.
‘We can stop being so concerned for our future health.’
She said that when they bought the property, they did not realise the extent of what went on at the waste site.
Island Waste managing director Dan Hubert said that ending wood burning was bad news for Guernsey’s dwindling landfill space.
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‘Island Waste managing director Dan Hubert said that ending wood burning was bad news for Guernsey’s dwindling landfill space.’
Manybe he should read the paper then!
There was an article within the last two weeks saying that wood now was not going to landfill but a location where islanders could then collect it as free firewood.
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The article says – “They (sic) couple bought their house almost three years ago and have been campaigning against burning ever since.”
I don’t understand why one would buy a house next to a source of complaint. It’s reasonable to complain if the company had moved in and started burning, but it was the other way around.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d hate to live next to a tip. So I’d not buy a house next to one. Surely they must have known the long-standing problems at that site?
E. The other one.
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This episode of buying a house and then complaining about an existing nearby business reminds me of the case some years ago when an advocate allegedly bought a property next to a shooting range, and then managed to get it closed down
Any volunteers to buy a house on the flight path and then trying to get the airport closed on noise grounds?
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What about the environment?? Island Waste should never have been allowed to burn wood in the open. 3,000 tonnes a year! The real scandal is that nothing has been done by HSSD to stop them before now. There’s so much agonising about the environmental impact of the new energy-from-waste plant, but people tolerate uncontrolled wood burning straight into the atmosphere, without so much as a squeak.
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