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Letter to Marko Bogieveski, CEO of Infratil: Hi Marko I wanted to write to you as Chief Executive of Infratil regarding Manston airport. As you know noise and air monitors have been removed since 2006 by Rowland Gunn under Steve Fitzgerald's management and supervision by Lloyd Morrison - from a school and tower block - and monitoring information delayed or denied to the council and public. Independent monitoring and reporting has shown air pollution levels 4x EU safe levels and concerns over noise levels and measurement. Clearly this is an issue for an airport slated for expansion with several million passengers. There have also been problems with polluting a UNESCO wetland, banned EU flights, illegal overflights, missing fines, ludicrous business forecasts etc - and several sackings of council staff. This could well be an issue of corporate manslaughter now - with fines, disqualification as Directors and extradition and criminal proceedings of Infratil Directors. There are ...

Chief Constable Ian Learmonth’s webchat yesterday and here’s my question and his response: http://www.kent.police.uk/news/online_meetings/120213_chief.html Question from Tim Garbutt Are Kent Police endangering the public through inaction over Infratil and Thor's illegal activities? My response The Norse god? Lazy Copper. Trying a smart-arse answer rather checking the Thor mercury in Margate (it’s just next to Hornby and BandQ if he’s too bone-idle to check the map himself). And a smart-arse answer? It’s certainly not funny. A mercury factory banned in 1988 but remains open. And one that he’s fully aware of. And silence on Infratil. Again that he’s fully aware of. Maybe he’s the sort of copper that switches the tape recorder in the interview room on and off to get the answers he wants. Or maybe the Chief Constable’s getting into the swing of just safeguarding his pension and eking out his time and tasering old ladies and not doing the difficult stuff like raiding the council offices...

Infratil’s Chief Executive Lloyd Morrison died last week aged 54 from leukaemia. No doubt Messrs Buchanan, Fitzgerald, Clarke, Gunn etc will blame this on seagull droppings or some such nothing to do with an airport rationale. Clearly any death is sad. Especially leukaemia. But with Infratil we have not only a pattern of denying the noise and air pollution around their airports – check put their consultation document on Whenuapai airport in New Zealand that dismisses air pollution completely. Or at Infratil removing the noise and air pollution monitors – and now the scratching around of our councillors and civil servants to cover up their involvement. It’s too late though isn’t it? The Toxic Three of Carter, King and Wild remained shtum throughout the airport development process – even as late as last year heading off to Whitehall with Buchanan for more public funds for a fantasy airport and Parkway – to sit alongside the $80M Road to Nowhere, $3M cargo border post, $9M cargo warehouse...

An article which geuinely horrifies me on asbestis in schools and public buildings: 4,000 deaths year of workmen, teachers and children. That's more than traffic accidents. Now confirmed as a "national scandal": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9055146/MPs-attack-national-scandal-of-asbestos-in-schools.html#disqus_thread KCC confirmed they have no central register of asbestos sites - and schools only have to log the contamination and then file it away. And asbestos was confirmed as a danger in the 1970's. And yet we're spending 80m of DofT funds on vanity construction projects like Roads to Nowhere, or 4th Town Centre, EKO, Caffyns housing estate and so on - what a criminal waste. And a programme on "Killer Roads": episode 3 is on the Goudhurst stretch of road in Kent as one of the most dangerous roads in Britain with unbelievable pictures of dozens of cars turned over and several deaths - for the sake of a few bollards, 20mph zone and ...

Kent on Sunday letter: Tim Collins writes eloquently on the potential for reform at Kent Police as elected Commissioner. Aside from a Most Wanted, or removing criminals from the Force or even reform of procurement and weapons, surely Kent Police are simply a political tool? What else explains the silence over Thor mercury and repeated flight breaches at Manston airport and the mix of blatant lies and misinformation over the removal of noise and air monitors by Messrs Carter and Buchanan and various TDC officials including the now sacked-with-shtum payments Gang Of Four senior TDC political and civil service leadership? Perhaps Chief Constable Ian Learmonth needs to get his trousers on and get some arrests made for corporate manslaughter before Kent Police is completely discredited – and cancer cases rise amongst his coppers. Or is he waiting for Buchanan and his Infratil directors to hand themselves in, or simply fly away – and then rely on Tim Collins and his mercenaries – sorry, coun...