Farcical euro eco regulations hit farmers ........!!!

Originally from: mark purdey
                        
THE CONCRETE FACTS.
Hi folks,

We have read various articles about the tightening up of environmental regulations relating to disposal of various farm wastes, some of this legislation being well justified, I am sure. But true to Euro-bureaucratic form, the pollution relating to the amount of paper making required for the documents on which the new legislation is written on, could actually exceed the amount of real pollution derived from these so called eco-offences on the farm.

For example, it is an offence to store woodchippings on the soil because of the parts per billion of natural arsenic that may leach from wood piles. But what about the considerably more intense concentration of arsenic that is found in the concrete base material that has to be laid beneath this wood pile in accord with the new laws ?

Furthermore, what about the toxic emissions from the waste munitions, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, pentachlorophenyls, car tyres which can now be used as fuel in the cement kilns since Eliot Morley's scandulous deregulation of the controls were inacted in 2003 ? – just watch out for the escalation in a myriad of degenerative and fatal diseases in those who live down wind from these plants.

The real pollution of our planet is coming from the likes of the global corporations and what's left of government owned industries. Yet, ironically, at the same time as regulations are compelling us smallfry individuals to be whiter than white – to a farcically fine degree – the corporations are ironically granted a license to be as black as black.

Is your agenda really based upon the best interests of the environment or what, Morley ? Aren't the new regulations favouring the expansion of the major corporate polluters on the planet, whilst forcing the closure of many of the small, non polluting farmer businesses that simply cannot accomadate any further extra and unnecessary costs ?

Best,

Mark Purdey.