10:49am Thursday 1st October 2009
YET again The Northern Echo is complicit in the plans for Eastgate’s manipulation and abuse by business interests (Echo, Sept 29).
There is nothing “ecological”
about the Eastgate scheme. The city of Bath is not just a pumped warm water scheme – it is two thousand years of history, genuine hot springs, architecture and culture. Eastgate will never be remotely similar!
This scheme will lay waste the valley, its history and culture.
If it does succeed in creating tourist traffic, it will be an ecological and environmental disaster.
There is no local support for the scheme. The “jobs” it creates will be wealth for construction companies and “consultants” – not for the Dale.
The biomass incinerator is in a stupid place, which will “consume” nearly as much diesel fuel bringing imported wood to the site as it will produce by burning.
The trucks will make for an impossible hazard on the valley road.
There is no wind for the wind farm in the valley. There is no hot spring. There is no biomass supply.
This is the most serious abuse of the term “ecological” in the region. It is absolutely the opposite of an “ecological”
project.
Whatever happened to “journalism” when there is no critique of the business PR which foists us off with such destructive, expensive and pointless waste?
David Sugden, Wolsingham.
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