I REFER to Martin Walker’s letter – Confused about energy plant plan (Keighley News, February 16).

I am so pleased Mr Walker seems to have been so well informed about the intended incinerator, but the fact remains a large number of people are still unaware of the plans.

Not everyone in Keighley reads the Keighley News or is on Facebook.

The “small unrepresentative group of protestors” has now grown to almost 7,000 and is growing all the time, mainly because people are slowly becoming aware of the plan.

I am a resident of Stockbridge, therefore I am not a “NIMBY of Riddlesden”, but I am a lot nearer to the proposed incinerator than Mr Walker in Oakworth. I will not be able to see the enormous, ugly new building (thank goodness!) from my house, but I may well be forced to breathe in the emissions, depending on the wind direction, as may Mr Walker.

To build an incinerator in a valley is madness in itself – to build one in a valley, next to a children’s centre, a sport’s stadium and in close proximity to many houses, is verging on criminal. At least the redundant gas holders do not produce fumes and emissions and the opposite hillside is still visible through them!

In an age where we are encouraged to use the roads less, the industrial waste for this incinerator will be travelling from North Yorkshire by road. Why not build it in North Yorkshire?

How can it be right that Bradford Council can make a decision of such importance regarding Keighley, when we all know it cares very little about its ‘poor relation’!

How thoughtful of them to approve a plan with an increased height of chimney stack, which will disperse the emissions on a level with many of the houses on the surrounding hillsides. Oh, but of course, there won’t be many emissions, will there? Strikes me the incinerator would be better built on top of a hill – there are some nice hills in Oakworth!

WENDY HALLOWAY Colenso Grove, Stockbridge