Bilsthorpe R.A.G.E (Residents against Gasification Experiment)
GAP Plumbing & Heating come from a former mining village in the north of Nottinghamshire. Bilsthorpe is a pleasant village in the heart of the countryside, but someone, somewhere has decided that Bilsthorpe will be the target for any eyesore, pong, experiment, noise etc. that is proposed for the locality. The village has already had the landfill and the wind turbines and now the latest proposal for this countryside village is a multi-million pound incinerator or, as the developers Peel Environmental refer to it, a Gasification Experiment to be constructed on the former colliery site.
Peel Environmental states that the incinerator will provide 46 jobs. Locals believe that this promise of jobs is simply to win favour with the planners, that the jobs will not be offered to the people of Bilsthorpe, but an experienced workforce will be brought in from other areas.
The residents of Bilsthorpe are understandably extremely concerned and have formed an action group called R.A.G.E (Residents against Gasification Experiment) www.bilsthorpe.com. R.A.G.E have decided to hold regular meetings to prepare a campaign to bring the community of Bilsthorpe and surrounding villages together to oppose the incinerator. The proposed incinerator will have 200 foot chimneys with the fumes and gases travelling much further, affecting towns and villages in a wide radius.
Local representatives Mark Spencer MP, Cllr Bruce Laughton and Cllr John Peck are totally opposed to this plant being built in Bilsthorpe.
R.A.G.E is totally opposed to the Gasification Experiment. Why?
The increased risk of cancer and respiratory disease through exposure to mercury and dioxins. These toxins are persistent and bioaccumulative, they resist breakdown in the environment and are concentrated in the food chain.
The waste gasification adds both directly and indirectly to the build-up of greenhouse gasses in the earth’s atmosphere.
Many of the materials that provide the best fuel for a gasification facility are the sorts of things most easily reused, recycled and composted. This facility takes us in the wrong direction requiring us to feed it 120,000 tonnes of waste annually.
The next R.A.G.E meeting is on Thursday, 23rd January 2014 at 1845 in the St John Ambulance building on Eakring Road, Bilsthorpe. If you live in the locality, you support is welcomed.
Landlords Gas Safety Certificates
by Unknown - 21:31 on 03 February 2014
Landlord Safety Certificates
Under the Gas Safety (Installation & Use Regulations) 1986 all properties that are rented must have checks to ensure all gas appliances and gas pipe work are working efficiently and securely to protect tenants from dangerous omissions. It is law for a Gas Safety Check to be carried out every 12 months and a Certificate (CP12) to be issued to verify its safety. These safety checks can only be carried out by Gas Safe Registered Engineers. From 1st April 2009 Gas Safe replaced Corgi as the new HSE approved scheme for the Registration of Gas Engineers.
Please note that a Landlord Safety Check is not a service.
Our Company operate under the Gas Safety Scheme, and are fully qualified to carry out gas safety checks. Please feel free to ask our engineer to show their Gas Safe ID card to confirm they are registered.
If the installation is unsafe, the problems will be listed on a form and a ‘Warning Notice’ may be issued. If it is dangerous to the tenants then the appliance will be isolated, with the Landlords permission, and a report made.
Once an appliance is deemed ‘safe’ a Landlords Safety Certificate will be issued. One copy for the Landlord, one copy for our records and one copy for the tenant, which the Landlord should give to them within 28 days of the examination.
Not complying with a safety inspection every 12 months, can lead to a heavy fine or even a custodial prison sentence for the landlord.
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