It seems that there is never a week goes by without some recycling centre fire. In the West Midlands area, we seem to have a locust infestation of these wretched places, all part of the great green recycling con job.”The black country” it seems is not so called because of its industrial past but because of its continuing present for fires of this ilk. That is because it is the toilet of the nation’s industry.
Todays was in West Bromwich on the Smethwick border, allegedly caused by “a single chinese lantern.” But hang on a minute, let’s not look at what came out of the sky and divert attention away from the site itself and what was being stored on the ground, its management risk assessment failures and those of the authorities before we look at what was the ignition source. Thousands of tonnes of plastic, cans and paper stored in bales in the open air.
View from the democratic republic of Tipton
And you could even see it from Rattlechain lagoon of all places!
A cursory look at Sandwell Council’s planning website reveals that this centre was only granted a change of use sui generis this year. Certainly it is of its own kind and let’s hope that it will not be back in use anytime in the future. We also hope that no wildlife were affected though this is as “optimistic” a hope as the Environment Agencies that it would not affect fish in the canal.
Water was being pumped from the Birmingham canal this afternoon to continue to doubt the fire. We will be monitoring the areas waterways in the coming days for any potential effects from the aftermath.
This is a result of bad planning. It is a result of poor advice from The Environment agency, the council’s environmental health department, and West Midlands fire service itself. Its frontline firefighters today are heroes; its policy and planning commentators are berks. As we have stated on this website, the planning system is rotten to the core about these type of site, yet they get railroaded through because of the phoney green agenda that politicians and their business led chummies orgasm over. It’s all about “sustainability”- er no it’s actually about producing toxic materials in ever greater bulk because they do not want to regulate them.
“Diverting waste from landfill” is the standard bollocks they trot out to justify these places, totally uncaring that they don’t bother regulating said landfills with any concern today- ie Rattlechain lagoon.
In truth we need to reduce the consumption of, with a view to ceasing the manufacture of plastic. “Whoah hold on a minute!” cry the fat parliamentary pigs and the porkers at the CBI, “you can’t do that it will cost jobs, it will ruin the econonmy!”- no plastic- no fires.
“we’d go back to living in the dark ages.” cry the tax dodging businessmen in their off shore safe havens, ignoring that man actually did exist before the later part of the 20th century and could go on so.
The National media were in the air, maybe they should fan the flames of questioning to Mr Nicholas Bubalo Esquire of SMBC.
Read the following from Sandwell council’s website with regard to this site application.
council report
decision notice
environmental statement
Last week we had bales of waste in Tipton go up in smoke, a fire at Kidderminster last week also. And yet these places keep springing up. And some like the one this charlaton in Oldbury got away with are “landforms” not landfills. £1 million to remove apparently on the taxpayer and the smell is horrendous! But where were the watchdogs regulating these conmen chumps?
Find it in Sandwell
.Find it in Nelson Street.
At the “sanctity” of the lagoon today, Goldmember had a new mojo fitted.
And Friday is “national innuendo day ” apparently, I’m sharpening my rather large pencil.
