JOHN WELLER'S CONCERN FOR OUR CORNISH ENVIRONMENT

John is the Chairman of CAIR ( Cornwall Against Incineration at Roche ) - the organisation set up by local people concerned at the plans by Cornwall County Council to build a huge waste incinerator at Roche, to serve the whole of the County.

John has always had an interest in our natural environment and in our Cornish countryside. Both are threatened by this development, although John acknowledges that we have to find an urgent solution to the problem of waste disposal by landfill.

He sees the incinerator as old technology and has called for the proposal to be dropped whilst new and innovative methods are studied to find a solution that is acceptable to our community.

The planned incinerator has a 240 foot chimney, which would carry poisonous waste residues over Mid, and North Cornwall, in particular, because of the prevailing winds.
John and his fellow campaigners in CAIR are shown below at a recent public meeting called to raise public awareness of the proposals. The meeting was packed out with concerned Cornish residents who called for a complete re-think.

" Only an ostrich with its head in the sand would vote for this scheme," said John.