Mod 11 - Uranquinty Power Station

Oppose due to close vacinity to power station. I live and have a family in Uranquinty and feel strongly that this issue needs to be held at current standards and the monitoring should not be extended.

Oppose. Live and have a family in Uranquinty and believe monitoring should not be extended

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I strongly object to this proposal. I do not agree with the reduction in monitoring of pollutants from the uranquinty power station. They need to stay as they currently are. As this facility gets older I do not want it to be monitored less!
I also think the complete lack of community consultation is appalling. One black and white typed a4 sheet in the service station ( however not on the notice board ) has not been see by many off the townsfolk. It's positioned in a place where your busy paying your bill and for me keeping my children away from the hundreds of sweet treats right in front of them. Uranquinty only has po boxes at the said service station we could have easily been contacted directly. Amanda Bell

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At the moment I am safe in the knowledge that the power station is checked regularly. These new proposals leave too big a gap between inspections to ensure the safety of the community.

We are concerned aboout the long term ramifications of the regular emissions testing being changed from continuous to 6 monthly and also the annual monitoring being reduced to 5 yearly as this is quite a long time for pollutants to be contimiating the area without any check, especially as the equipment ages over time. We are concerned for the health and safety of young students here at school as well as the long term effects upon staff members.

Our organisation objects to this proposal.

Appears that the on going cost of the monitoring is the main reason for requesting the changes.
Being assured that the plant is operating at a safe level is far more important than Company profit.
Don't change the current system.
My interest is that I have family with small children living in Uranquinty.

I object to emissions not being checked continuously, I have children at the school less than 3 kilometers from the station and I want to know that they are safe . I believe not checking the levels continuously is dangerous and will end up exposing our town to toxins which in the beginning we were told would be safe and constantly checked.

Because my children go to the school at Uranquinty I just want to know that they will be safe and any problems are picked up straight away... We also live in Uranquinty and i think it is dangerous not to check the levels constantly.

With anything that ages more frequent and regular monitoring takes place, I therefore question why in this case would frequent (continuous) monitoring that has been in place for 5 years be replaced with with six monthly monitoring on an ageing piece of infrustructure that can easily impact on a village and residence within 3km?

"All other pollutants" is poorly defined and needs clarification.

We object to this proposal for the following reasons.
We live within 1800 metres of the power station and are very concerned that if any problems occur and emissions rise above the allowable limits , it could take up to 6 months before they are detected and in some cases up to 5 years.
Machinery can and does wear out over a number of years , if any previously unmonitored emissions begin to escape it could be 5 years before they are detected .
The meaning of "all other pollutants " must be clarified before any decision is made.
Noise is a pollutant ,if the operators are going to continue to operate at current levels that are above EPA limits, at known sites ,we believe "all other pollutants" in particular noise should closely monitored.
We are subjected to very uncomfortable , low frequency noise , which raises the question as to when the noise problem is going to be fixed, and why should this be changed to a five year monitoring as per "all other pollutants" when it is a current and ongoing problem.

I DONOT believe it is safe for my family or the community to change the frequency of the gas releases.