Author Archives: swanny

The idea of attempting to relink the demise of two brickworks operations, filled over with toxic wastes and foundry sands into some co-disposal super tip to use as a foundation for housing is absurd, and yet here we are with … Continue reading →

Having been contacted by many frustrated and worried people across the country about landfill sites in their backyard, it is clear that the Government’s insane Planning and Infrastructure Bill is a recipe for irreversible environmental damage and future human health … Continue reading →

Recently, the “tramp phosphorus” botherers were spotted on site doing their annual monitoring rounds of boreholes. This has been ongoing for some years but the reasons and rationale are not what they seem for the public point of view. The … Continue reading →

  Unfortunately, investigative journalism is a very rare thing these days, and few stories that aren’t verbatim given to many of these people never make the news. I have had great difficulty with some “journalists” over the years, who didn’t … Continue reading →

Petitions are worth signing.  Sometimes, as I have found out by direct personal experience, it is very difficult to wake many people up and get them to do anything. Others will happily sit on the side lines and let the … Continue reading →

  Wherever they went, whatever town they set up a factory in, this chemical company blighted it and put local residents at risk. Their apologists can claim that accidents can happen, and these were somehow in the distant past but … Continue reading →

This is a story I stumbled upon by chance, as many of them tend to be, or I tend to believe “guided” to find. It concerns the area beyond what would have been the former Rattlechain Brickworks or Stour Valley … Continue reading →

This toxic archive is a gift. It is taken from The Sandwell Chronicle of 26th October 1996.  As always with this company, and not that many years before their demise, they are about desperately trying to promote themselves as safety … Continue reading →

Most mothers are loving and kind, but some like the one in the story below are coercive Mrs Bates figures of reality and not fiction who fear their offspring leaving them behind and not having any part in their adult … Continue reading →