“We recently read and saw the photographs about the dramatic orange dust storm that devastated Sydney, NSW Australia - people called it a freak of nature - well for some in Port Talbot, Taibach and Margam an "orange dust storm" is a normal occurrence and not a freak of nature but man made pollution from the Steel Works. It's pointless buying a new car in Port Talbot, because of the air borne pollution causes the paint work to become tarnished and expensive metallic paints are the worst effected. So we read about the visible damage caused to the vehicles and homes of these people, however successive Governments have simply taken a blind eye to the health issues of the residents of Port Talbot. We have clowns in London - who couldn't care less about Port Talbot residents - making decisions that without over dramatizing the fact are putting a death sentence on the residents of Port Talbot by authorising the building of the wood burning Power Station. You can see it now - "we have this green energy target to meet - a biomass power station in Port Talbot - yes that sounds fine".....What the operators of this wood burning Power Station will not tell you is that most of the worlds other biomass power stations have been built many miles away from any residential areas for the following reasons: 1 - They DO pollute 2 - They DO give off massive amounts of Carbon dioxide - after all they are burning WOOD 3 - They do massively increase the Particulate Matter (the smoke from the chimney) in the local environment 4 - They DO massively increase the noise pollution - under normal working conditions and massively when there are technical problems - the steam is as a matter of safety vented to atmosphere (our local environment) - the noise will be horrendous. Given all of the above - on top of the pollution given off from this "worlds largest" wood burning power station we will have massive pollution at sea from the increased ships delivering the suspect wood to be chipped and of course the massive increase in trucks taking away the ash from the wood burning process. If you can afford to move from Port Talbot do it soon as the price of houses will fall so much that you could not give away the houses once this filthy power station is built and operational. The pollution we get daily from the Steel Works will be seen as a small shower compared to the huge storm that we will get from this filthy wood burning power station.”

“What about the effects on the health of the people who are breathing this pollution”

“did I not read recently som old man from Cardiff stated that pollution would be monitorred , What a joke. What about the effect on people who are breating this pollution. You can repaint a car but you cannot recoat your lungs!”

“Did I read some where recently that some old man from Cardif stated that pollution would be monitorred. It is being monitorred . What about the effect on people breating this pollution?”