e-mail to Colin Rayner - 22 April 2012

Colin

I first raised the issue of CarCarc tankers with Datchet Parish Council in March last year.

You will remember that when I first complained to you in May about the smell and slurry dumping at Kingsmead Quarry, you declined my invitation to meet with me to view these questionable activities, stating that ‘you needed permission from the owner to enter the site’.

In the absence of answers or assistance from yourself (or your fellow Councillor Lenton for that matter) I then took many photographs, contacted Cemex, RBWM Environmental Health and finally the Environment Agency.

Due to the possibility of legal proceedings you then refused to communicate to me.

Questions to Horton Parish Council and Wraysbury Parish Council did not result in answers, and in particular I found the experience of being shouted down by Councillor Lenton during a Wraysbury Parish Council Meeting quite extraordinary – indeed embarrassing.

Now that CarCarc has been prosecuted and fined £40,000 plus costs, I do believe the way is now clear for the facts to be published.

I have recently met with the Environment Agency and submitted a series of questions under the FoI legislation, but clearly they may be unwilling or unable to answer some or all of those questions.  I have also highlighted the issues of slurry containment and groundwater pollution.

When it becomes available I am looking forward to receiving the report mentioned in the Wraysbury Parish Council Minutes.

Consequently before I take any further action, I do feel that it is the right time and only fair that I should offer you one last opportunity to clarify the facts.

I look forward to hearing from you very soon.

 

Ewan