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Odour - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The questions below have been emailed to the council by residents asking about air quality and odour within the borough, by clicking on each question in turn you will open a document which gives the specific answer to that question.

Q Why don't the council stop industry releasing gases that cause bad smells?
Q Why does local industry wait until night time or weekends to fill the skyline with "smoke"?
Q If I can smell it and it smells unpleasant, does that mean its bad for me?
Q How do you investigate a complaint?
Q Do the council ever prosecute people for causing an odour?
Q Why are farmers allowed to spread waste like chicken manure when it smells so awful?
Q Often when I travel along the A5117 past the Sewage Treatment Works, I can smell an awful odour, why is action not taken?
Q I've heard that Ellesmere Port has one of the worse worst asthma and cancer rates in the country because of poor air quality, is this true?
Q There are a lot of bad odours in the air at week-ends and especially on Bank Holidays. Is there an out of hours contact number? It seems that some people may be taking the opportunity to release their problem when the Environmental Protection Office is closed.
Q With the decommissioning of the nuclear facility at Capenhurst, what are the dangers for people in Ellesmere Port ?
Q Incinerators (eg. Cleanaway) in Ellesmere Port burn waste to stop it being dangerous and toxic, but some elements are toxic (eg. some metals); burning cannot change an element - so how do we know that incinerators burning are making the air safe?
Q Cleanaway imports waste from Australia, to burn here. If the waste is that dangerous that it needs to be transported to the other side of the globe, to a different hemisphere - how do we know that Ellesmere Port residents are safe?
Q There are many factories producing various types of pollution in Ellesmere Port, this pollution may react in unknown ways together in the air; how do we know there are no dangerous compounds being created?