Toxicity and Chemical Listing for Biscathorpe

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Dear Lincolnshire County Council,
Dear Sir, Madam
I am writing to Lincolnshire County Council and the Enviroment Agency.

I have two concerns I want officially recorded Please. .
This is of such serious note that if there is any need to produce this letter I need it on record that I have written to you, and that this is further to my email last week, sent to each member of the County Council, to the Enviroment Agency and to my MP Ms Victoria Atkins.

These two things need to be done as soon as possible. Such information needs to be shared weeks prior to the event of the drilling as any discrepancy and any concerns raised by this expert needs to be communicated to the above concerned groups.

1) I would like to ask for an independent Toxicity report of the chemicals to be used by Egdon Resources in the exploratory stage of the drilling through the Aquifer at Biscathorpe.
This needs to be independently analysed by an expert in the field. There is a need for this
to be independent (accompanying the Egdons own submitted toxicity report) .

2) The second need is for the list of the chemicals used to be made available to the Council, the farmer, the Enviroment Agency, the Community liaison Group and by association to the concerned public.

At this stage both members of the council, (who will be responsible for ‘clean ups’ and any financial concerns of pollution), the farmer of the land (whose health, his streams and whose immediate airspace, animals and crops will be affected by the ensuing toxins) ….
have been told that there will be no chemicals used in the initial exploratory drilling.
Indeed I have even had a letter myself to this affect.

I am concerned that this is not the case however. I detail the case at Wrestle which has similar geology and a similar drilling procedure as the one at Biscathorpe. Despite promises that there were no additives of a dangerous and poisonous nature put into this well this was found most certainly to be not the case. I have no confidence at all that Egdon is being any different in this respect. I therefore respectfully ask for full disclosure enforced by this government and its representatives.
The importance of this is underlined in my previous letter.

It is quite unthinkable that the Air, Water and the Earth should be so irretrievably poisoned. If you have not already done so please research (!) the process of Acidisation. and (2) the the decay of equipment, the accidents that onsure drilling of this particular nature is prone to. I am sure you are aware that this site is right next to a clear Chalk Stream in an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Acidisation is every bit as bad as Fracking and there needs to be special attention paid of course to the huge Elephant in the room…the very real probability of Human Extinction, which this will be helping our world to achieve. This process has to stop if any future can be found for us as humans on this Earth. The Clean up and the economic repercussions of the end to fossil fuels will ruin Lincolnshire if action is not taken very promptly.

I would like an official reply in writing please as this is an important and considered letter that I write on behalf of my Community
Yours sincerely
Pauline Bell

Yours faithfully,

Pauline Bell

CSC_HP_OnlineForms, Lincolnshire County Council

Dear Mrs Bell

Thank you for your email.

The enquiry has been raised under the reference number 345448-101000335003
and passed to the Minerals and waste team.

Thank you for contacting Lincolnshire County Council.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Daryl Smith             T:01522 782070

On behalf of Highways and             [1][email address]
Planning Team
[2]www.lincolnshire.gov.uk

 

 

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