Cancer fears as row reignites over West Lancs incinerator - but firm says 'NHS could not operate' without it
A bitter row over proposals to build a medical waste incinerator on the West Lancs Merseyside border has reignited - as a crunch meeting has been deferred until December.
Agents acting for Mr Kennedy at Oaktree Environmental Ltd have previously claimed Public Health England studies show modern, well-run and regulated waste incinerators are not a significant risk to public health - but campaigners have hit back, citing cancers, congenital abnormalities, respiratory illnesses, strokes, fertility issues and cardiovascular problems.
But Paula Carlyle, a member of the campaign group ‘Stop the Simonswood Incinerator,’ told Lancs Live this week: “I just don’t see how it’s defendable when it is so close to residential properties and also workplaces. You know, people that work on that vast industrial estate are going to be subjected to these emissions on a daily basis and there are thousands upon thousands that work on the industrial estate and they will be exposed to those emissions.
Meanwhile, Dr Kerry Dwan, Methods Support Unit Lead and Statistical Editor at the Evidence, Production and Methods Directorate of Cochrane Central Executive Team, who lives near the proposed site, told Lancs Live: "I think there is evidence to show increased cancers, congenital abnormalities, miscarriages and infant deaths."
Mr Kennedy said, according to the council minutes, that there was a lack of facilities to treat such medical waste west of the M6 and north of the M62, which meant medical waste currently being transported to Leeds, Oldham and Wrexham, adding that the Oldham incinerator was surrounded by around 1,000 homes, at least one college and several schools or nurseries.
However, the World Health Organisation which was contacted by Lancs Live, sent back various documents as background information regarding medical waste incineration. Among them is a document with a title page headed, ‘Incineration of Healthcare Waste and the Stockholm Convention Guidelines,’ which says that medical waste incineration is ‘a major global source of dioxins.
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