What Lies Beneath Rattlechain Lagoon?

 

 

 

On the fifth day of Christmas Santa Wilson gave to thee…..

CANCER- Benzene rings.

p4 dying birds,

Ill health trends,

pain- phossy jaw,

 and a toxic cloud over Langley.

 

 

 

 

On the fourth day of Christmas Santa Wilson gave to thee…..

p4 dying birds,

Ill health trends,

pain- phossy jaw,

 and a toxic cloud over Langley.

 

 

 

 

 

On the third day of Christmas Santa Wilson gave to thee…..

Ill health trends,

pain- phossy jaw,

 and a toxic cloud over Langley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the second day of Christmas Santa Wilson gave to thee…..

pain- phossy jaw

 

 and a toxic cloud over Langley.

 

 

 

 

On the first day of Christmas Santa Wilson gave to thee…..

 

 a toxic cloud over Langley.

 

 

Rat-a-tat-tat, Rat-a-tat-tat,

Yes! Yes! Yes!

There is a little room
And you may stay here,
We have a little place for strangers.
Come in feel the heat 
have a shower and brush your teeth,

it is full of warmth and friendliness-and-safe from dangers.
Yes, there is a little room,
at Rattlechain lagoon.

There is a little room for strangers.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM WHAT LIES BENEATH RATTLECHAIN LAGOON

 

An eery quiet at Rattlechain lagoon now as the works of 2013 become a fading memory. Following a freedom of information request, it can now be seen that the purpose of these works had more about them than the site owners were letting on- as we had said all along. Analysis of this coming soon. “Rattlechain Limited”- I’m still laughing out loud at the idea of a multinational setting up some dodgy “phoenix company” that could go bump to remove the licence by default, but there again it wouldn’t be the first time.  

BUSY, BUSY BUSY at the moment on a number of “missing links” in the rattlechain wheel.

Some interesting visitors at the lagoon during the week. A party of cormorants- the fishermen hate them, I love em. A prehistoric looking creature that flash like dirty old men opening their raincoats to dry out their wings in the sun.

 

Not any fish there lads!

Another pair of rare passage migrants appeared on the canal today. They too appeared to be eagerly looking for quarry, or perhaps “pumped quarry water”. Alas the rattlechain pier was not turned on, so the buckets were filled with plain old cut water by the looks of it.

 

Or were they there for milking? Love the latex gloves! I hope they didn’t get lost.

 

And they weren’t the only ones taking samples today. Russell the seagull and a crow were also doing it on the causeway path.

 

 

 

The old pumphouse is now an empty shell. The scene reminds me of a Yeats poem.

 

 He hears the cry of the sedge

 

 

 I wander by the edge
Of this desolate lake
Where wind cries in the sedge:
Until the axle break
That keeps the stars in their round,
And hands hurl in the deep
The banners of East and West,
And the girdle of light is unbound,
Your breast will not lie by the breast
Of your beloved in sleep.

WB Yeats

Produced, written and directed by swanman.

NB. No animals were harmed during the making of this blog post, except quakerzilla. (UNLIKE THE MANY POISONED BY ALBRIGHT AND WILSON AND RHODIA’S TOXIC WHITE PHOSPHORUS AT RATTLECHAIN LAGOON.)

 

 The rattlechain lagoon waste management permit variation works are now appearing to be over. We say this because this is what the last 11 months have really been about. The wildlife, “protecting wildfowl” banner was the convenient PR tool, but it was a very blunt one when your opponent saves things which have been said in the past and then reminds others of them. This is what this website has been about- and it will continue to explain the rhetoric and spin that come out of Trinity Street.

Some key points that emerge from the final Rattlechain newsletter

“The Rattlechain lagoon will remain a hazardous waste landfill site”- of course it will- licence/permit surrender can only prevent it being called anything else as is the closure plan for the site. This is not in the direct control of Rhodia/Solvay.

We do however get the first “next step” into admitting this. “The existing permit will however be varied so as to acknowledge that no new waste is being introduced to the site.”

The permit variation will be interesting to see- because this sets out the closure report roadmap for the site. “Monitoring” is what the new conditions of this permit will entail- including phosphine gas because the EA know full well of the likely potential of this gas to be evolved from the site.

“There has been no detection of phosphine gas”- This would depend on how,when and where you are testing for this gas given its very low lying presence. Would you find it near to the fenceline away from the pool, in the middle of the day- no you would not. Below waterlevel and the geotextile/membrane however is a different matter altogether. This is another example of non-denial denial. They then talk about monitoring of boreholes nearest to the houses so that “the area”- (which area, the area near to the houses or the whole site and its surroundings?) “remains free of phosphine gas.” If it “remains free”, then there must be a source and pathway with which it can escape unless the pathway has been controlled by the addition of the sand?

What they omit to state about monitoring of the geotextile long term to see if it remains in place, is exactly about phosphine gas.This gas would push the membrane up, which is why they have used so much sand to try to stop this from happening. Whether the release of this gas in this “controlled?” manner does not present a risk to residents is not really the issue concerning wildfowl protection, whereas the release at low lying levels to returning wildfowl will be a different matter.

 

You can see gas being emitted with the naked eye on a still day. It reminds me of Comical Ali from Gulf War 2 when the American tanks were in shot behind him, still giving it large about the infidels being crushed. Pathetic.

But there again, Rhodia’s employees from their works management down have always never believed that their actions and that of their esteemed Ox-bridge scientific bretheren could have got it so wrong. They are deniers of white phosphorus poisoning in wildfowl, which has been proven despite their squalid attempts to attempt to dismiss it over many years.

This last several days have seen the sparkies in action fixing a line under the site.

 

 

 

AND NOW SWANWATCH WILL MONITOR THE EFFECTS OF THE BURIED WASTE ON WILDFOWL, AS SOLVAY PRAY THAT NO MORE DEAD BIRDS WILL BE FOUND ON THE SITE.

 

 

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND ABOVE ALL – THE COVER UP OF TOXIC WASTE WHICH REMAINS THERE UNDER A MAGICIAN’S HANDKERCHIEF.

SIX TOWNS- ONE COUNCIL-ONE GIANT POLLUTION PROBLEM……..

HIDE IT IN SANDWELL…….