Interested to see if council approves Ineos' planning variation (From Runcorn and Widnes World)

Interested to see if council approves Ineos' planning variation

9:27am Thursday 4th August 2011 in Your Letters

I AM writing in response to the letter you printed from the ‘ICI Pensioner’ on July 27. Yes, I agree that jobs are important, but so is the health of ourselves, our children, our grandchildren and theirs. But my real point though is this. If you were building a football stadium and asked the council for permission for 5,000 supporters to attend every week, and were granted this permission, would you then go to the expense of building a ground capable of seating 40,000 and then trying to get permission for that 40,000 to attend every week, after the event? The simple answer is no. Not unless you were 110 per cent sure in advance that you were going to get that permission. It is obvious that Ineos just thought, first get your foot in the door, than you can force the rest of the body through no problem. I will be extremely interested to see what happens, and to read the council’s reasons of justification if it approves this variation. Oh, and by the way, this annual volume of 480,000 tonnes equates to the following: If each lorry can carry 30 tonnes of waste product, then this will be approximately one fully laden 30-tonne lorry every eight minutes, of every hour between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, 52 weeks of the year. Asthma sufferer