Air testing equipment to monitor Bishop’s Castle biomass plant
Thursday 8th September 2011, 1:22PM BST.
New air quality testing equipment has been installed in Bishops’s Castle to monitor emissions from the town’s controversial £5 million biomass plant, it has been revealed.
Shropshire Council has confirmed it has agreed to request from Bishop’s Castle Town Council to use high-tech testing gear to ensure gases from the plant, due to be built at Bishop’s Castle Business Park, are not polluting the air.
Campaigners concerned about the plant’s impact on public health lost a three-year battle against proposals to build the biomass plant last December, despite a 1,400-name petition and 130 residents travelling to Shrewsbury for the planning meeting.
Martin Key, environmental protection manager at Shropshire Council, said four new ‘diffusion tubes’ were being installed in the town to monitor nitrogen dioxide levels.
Mr Key said: “In essence, yes we will be monitoring air quality closely and making sure the biomass plant meets the conditions attached to the planning permission.
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