New Year, same old Sonae Pollution.

The Sonae Factory has started the New Year by polluting the residents of Kirkby and beyond with the Black Smoke which Sonae laughably try to claim is steam. The Sonae Factory itself remained closed for the Christmas period, this may have been due to maintenance but as reported on this Website, Sonae loses a lot of money, reportedly £10,000 an hour when the production lines are down

Kirkby Times can provide, once again, Video Evidence of the Black Smoke. This footage was taken at approx 3.00pm on Friday 3rd of January. It was shot near Quarry Green Shops which is a fair distance away. You can click on the link below to download the video which is approx 1.4 mb in size and an mpeg fprmat.

Download the Video

Poisoning local Kids

The Schools are back soon, so once again the Kids of Northwood in particular will be sucking up the poison in their delicate lungs. The photograph below was taken by Simonswood School, you can see the Black Cloud clearly in the background, if the wind is blowing towards the School, as it often is, the consequences are predictable.

We need a Public Enquiry

Remember that Knowsley Council knew the reputation of Sonae when they applied to open a factory here. There should be a Public Enquiry into the whole affair. How the hell can a Local Council, supposedly concerned with lung related disease here, allow a factory which has contradicted itself time and time again when it comes to responding to criticism? First they tell us the chimney only has 'steam' coming out of it, then they tell us they will build the chimney bigger. If it's just steam, why bother?

What happened to Public meeting in December?

This Website reported in Dec 2002 that there was to be a Public Meeting to discuss the Knowsley Primary Care Trust's report which gave Sonae 'a clean bill of health' as reported in the Liverpool Echo on Dec 7th 2002. The Public Meeting never went ahead, which was predicted by Kirkby Times. Kirkby Times will be pushing for this meeting to go ahead, and for Dr Helen Forrest, the Author of the report into Sonae, to be answerable to the local Community.

An unhappy New Year to Knowsley Councils management and Sonae Workers!

There will be more Sonae articles reports and eye witness accounts in the coming year. Kirkby Times would like, at this point, to wish everyone who helped bring Sonae here and all who work there, the very worse for the New Year.

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