Riding roughshod over health and wellbeing

LABOUR AM Lesley Griffiths has the audacity to accuse campaigners opposed to the dumping of inadequately tested radioactive mud from Hinkley on the Welsh coastline of “scaremongering” and spreading “lies”.

Plaid Cymru AM Rhun ap Iorwerth submitted the motion at the Assembly on Wednesday, October 10, calling for the Welsh Assembly to “publish more detailed evidence in response to concerns regarding risks to public health and the environment, including allowing for further testing in order to provide greater transparency” and in the meantime “instruct Natural Resources Wales to suspend the marine licence that enables the disposal activity”.

Plaid Cymru AM Llyr Gruffydd quite reasonably asked that the Assembly take the precautionary principle on this issue.

Andrew RT Davies, Conservative AM, also voted for the motion. Professor Keith Barnham, of Imperial College London, has expressed concerns that the mud has not been adequately tested and that there might be the possibility of uranium and plutonium entering the environment via Hinkley’s cooling system.

Dr Richard Bramhall’s letter to National Resources Wales raised concerns that “the tests did not assess whether uranium, plutonium and other alpha-emitting elements were present in minute “particulate form”.

So Lesley Griffiths is happy to ignore two experts and refuse to employ the precautionary principle, refuse to suspend the dumping licence, refuse an Environmental Impact Assessment and refuse to request further thorough testing of the mud.

The Labour Party is riding roughshod over the health and wellbeing of the people, not only of Cardiff and Penarth, but of all along the Welsh coast as tides move the mud

Lesley Griffiths is happy to ignore two experts and refuse to employ the precautionary principle... Gill Griffin Llandaff North

around. It beggars belief.

Gill Griffin

Llandaff North, Cardiff Privileged gathering

ROYAL Wedding 2 – a classic analogy of Brexit Britain. The rich and powerful party and the homeless and poor are “moved on” – and of course the taxpayer, not the bride’s father, foots the bill.

Nigel Baker

Roath, Cardiff Nationalise now

DISAPPOINTING but not surprising to hear of the huge profit which Arriva Trains has made in Wales (Echo, October 11).

But whichever private company follows them will do exactly the same thing. Private companies maximise profit by charging customers as much as they can get away with. It’s what capitalism is all about.

The sooner our railways and the trains which run on them are back in public ownership the sooner the ripoff will stop.

Meurig Parri Grangetown, Cardiff