@CASHcampaigners @EalingIndys @_petermason @THTCCLOTHING @EalingGreens I think it’s even more reason (if any were really needed) why they should simply accept at face value residents' honest reports of odour nuisance and ill-health caused by toxic air pollution, as opposed to attempting to ‘verify’ or ‘substantiate’, or invalidate, our experiences.
Read more@CASHcampaigners @EalingIndys @_petermason @THTCCLOTHING @EalingGreens Of course, we shouldn’t be too hard on Ealing Council. Their experience of failing to scrutinise or regulate their business partners poisoning of brown and black people’s air isn’t wholly due to their own incompetence and carelessness, or racism. x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read morePresumably, two and half years of a BAD nuisance isn’t enough? What does it take? A BAD, BAD nuisance?
Read more@CASHcampaigners @EalingIndys @_petermason @THTCCLOTHING @EalingGreens It’s not like Ealing Council doesn’t have history when it comes to failing to properly regulate and scrutinise odour nuisance from nearby sites. x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read moreLast year I reported odour nuisance directly to the Leader of Ealing Council. Six hours later, his odour response team were unable to substantiate or verify my experience. t.co/uuBP9F2Et…
Read moreOf course, it’s entirely possible that there have been no ‘substantiated’ complaints of odour nuisance from the Southall Gasworks site. The broken odour nuisance reporting process seems to be designed to produce exactly that outcome.
Read moreBerkeley Group’s Ashley Kensington is denying that there have ever been any ‘substantiated’ odour complaints about the Southall Gasworks site @_petermason @VirendraSharma @DrOnkarSahotaAM. When will you be putting her straight on this question? x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read moreHow was odour being measured? Was this linked to air quality monitoring in any way? What level of odour would have warranted formal or informal enforcement action @_petermason? x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read moreWhat threshold of complaints was reached to bring about this ceasing of operations at the Southall Gasworks site @_petermason? x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read moreVirendra Sharma, MP for Ealing, Southall said, “We are taking a stand, we are saying enough is enough, our environment matters. #EndTheMess #StopTheStink
Read more@CASHcampaigners @EalingIndys @_petermason @THTCCLOTHING @EalingGreens I don’t suppose they will need to analyse it. They can simply accept Berkeley’s word that everything is fine. Regulation that is, in a sense, NOT regulation?
Read more@EalingIndys @CASHcampaigners @_petermason @THTCCLOTHING @EalingGreens Air quality monitoring (and staying within legal limits) is a condition of the planning agreement for the site. How does Ealing Council fulfil its statutory duty to regulate the site if they don’t have the data?
Read more‘Fuck the bus drivers’ x.com/zarahsultana/s…
Read more#EnoughIsEnough * @_petermason Except in Southall #NeverEnough x.com/CASHcampaigner…
Read more@EalingIndys @CASHcampaigners @aracelicamargo_ @_petermason @THTCCLOTHING @dpmx65 In 2018, when @EnvAgencySE was the site regulator, Ealing Council published a briefing after the Southall Green ward forum (which @_petermason chaired so chaotically) stating that levels of odour did not meet an enforcement threshold. Now we are told not enough complaints.
Read moreMore disinformation from Ealing Council? ‘Odours not at a level significant enough to justify formal enforcement action.’ (A lot going on in that statement.) No mention of a complaints threshold. No mention of the EA being the regulator of the soil hospital. x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read more@CASHcampaigners @damian_leydon @atkinsglobal Ammonia clearly was one of the main toxic contaminants. Funny how it seemed to go from being openly acknowledged as a contaminant, to being denied (albeit in context of ‘cleaning’). Never heard anything more about ammonia after that.
Read more@CASHcampaigners Five weeks out of six, from the start of June (but we’d also had most of May which was hot and northerly winds, too). t.co/lrbZWSMul…
Read moreFrom @damian_leydon’s ‘scientist’ ‘clarified’ that ‘no use of ammonia in the treatment of the soil.’ t.co/tP5WP9iW0…
Read more‘Tar and ammoniacal liquors were typically stored on site in underground tanks or wells…’ ‘It is the excavation of the liquor tank in one area of the site that has led to the odours due to the presence of hydrocarbon compounds.’ t.co/y5URXjkwI…
Read more‘…the smell from the gas works is ammonia…’ My own words summarising a conversation the same morning with Atkins' environmental engineer (aka @damian_leydon’s ‘scientist’). t.co/Ydn2gGjnF…
Read more@CASHcampaigners @EalingIndys @BerkeleyGroupUK @VirendraSharma @tgqwestlondon @_petermason ‘…nor are there any complaints relating to the site which have been substantiated.’ This is palpable nonsense (not that I expect anything else from Berkeley). t.co/vHRk3BEOe…
Read more‘Operations had recently ceased due to odour complaints…’ in 2017. t.co/j5ahRKz5X…
Read more‘What is this odour and is it harmful?’ ‘The odour is typically a mixture of components, however generally includes: hydrocarbons, tars and ammonia. The odours… can be a nuisance…’ x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read more‘Berkeley Homes… have no plans to undertake… odorous work before next week. The combination of these… measures… should mean that the properties on the south side of the site should not experience any odours from Southall Waterside, from Monday for the foreseeable future.’ t.co/ECqODkRAZ…
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