Cemfuel, the 'truth' is out
NOW it is in the open - Cemfuel burned in Clitheroe by Castle Cement is .... acid tars from the heat treatment of coal in making smokeless fuel. Acid tars from natural gas purification.

Cemfuel is organo-metallic wood preservative waste ... carbon from Chlorine production.

Cemfuel is "still bottoms and reaction residues" from the manufacture of organic pesticides, plastics, synthetic rubber etc.

Cemfuel is wastes from incineration of municipal, industrial and institutional wastes, which are trapped in the activated carbon filters in the chimneys.

Yet, six years ago, Peter del Strother, works manager of Castle Cement, said that they were burning a "new light fuel oil," which did not contain dioxins or fumes.

The Draft Decision document issued by the Environment Agency contains approximately 100 categories of hazardous wastes, that can be burnt in any of the plant's kilns. Many are not solvents, but highly toxic wastes.

I and others have spent six years trying to get the truth into the open. Now there is no excuse for anyone - headteachers, governors, elected representatives, clergy, doctors, now is the time - over to you.

MARY V HORNER, Heights Farm, Bolton-by-Bowland, Clitheroe.