Monday, March 14, 2005
Trow Quarry
Trow Quarry Scrutiny Commission
It comes as no surprise that South Tyneside Council's Scrutiny Commission has found an "expert witness" in the shape of Professor Paul Younger, who happily asserts that he would take his family to Trow Quarry for a day out. "I'd be more worried about the dog dirt that gets into the grass", said Proffessor Younger.
Of course he has the benefit of many years of higher education, and would therefore be a good judge as to what was, or what was not, safe for his children to pick up (or ingest). He also looks a relatively tall man, certainly over two meteres, so would be unlikely to walk into a heavy cloud of methane sitting at 1.00 metre high, yes he is rather taller than the average toddler.
At his age he is unlikely to be spending his hours digging with a bucket and spade on this secluded beach (or on the asbestos spoiled Sandhaven beach), neither does he look the sort who might be digging for bottles, or an enthusiast of metal detecting.)
Judged by his comments on dog dirt, I would hazard a guess that he may not be a dog owner either.
In short Professor Younger does not fit the profile of the "critical receptors" defined in High-Point Rendell's original draft report and restated in the "finalised" report. He is not amongst that group (particularly younger children) who are described as being at greatest risk. So his comments, as publicly reported in the Shields Gazette should be read with a little caution.
The more worrying aspect is the fact that South Tyneside Council should introduce a so called "expert witness" at this stage. It seems to me that having paid High-Point Rendell to conduct the initial investigation as an independant consultant, then paid them again for a further detailed investigation, the Council appears to be doing everything in it's power to damn their findings. Fourteen months were spent negotiating with High-Point Rendell in order to produce a finalised report with a more "comfortable" set of words which the Council could accept, and now they wish to "rubbish" the finalised report with the findings of Professor Younger.
I made an earlier post which illustrated that these practises would never be allowed in the private sector. An independant report, which had been commissioned and paid for, who be acted upon immediately. The recommendations would have been carried out, otherwise heads might roll! In the private sector there would be no negotiations with the independant assessors to water down the contents of their report - they would remain completely independant.
Professor Younger's Comments in the Shields Gazette - click here
BBC News Report -click here
Tyne Tees Television report - click here
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It comes as no surprise that South Tyneside Council's Scrutiny Commission has found an "expert witness" in the shape of Professor Paul Younger, who happily asserts that he would take his family to Trow Quarry for a day out. "I'd be more worried about the dog dirt that gets into the grass", said Proffessor Younger.
Of course he has the benefit of many years of higher education, and would therefore be a good judge as to what was, or what was not, safe for his children to pick up (or ingest). He also looks a relatively tall man, certainly over two meteres, so would be unlikely to walk into a heavy cloud of methane sitting at 1.00 metre high, yes he is rather taller than the average toddler.
At his age he is unlikely to be spending his hours digging with a bucket and spade on this secluded beach (or on the asbestos spoiled Sandhaven beach), neither does he look the sort who might be digging for bottles, or an enthusiast of metal detecting.)
Judged by his comments on dog dirt, I would hazard a guess that he may not be a dog owner either.
In short Professor Younger does not fit the profile of the "critical receptors" defined in High-Point Rendell's original draft report and restated in the "finalised" report. He is not amongst that group (particularly younger children) who are described as being at greatest risk. So his comments, as publicly reported in the Shields Gazette should be read with a little caution.
The more worrying aspect is the fact that South Tyneside Council should introduce a so called "expert witness" at this stage. It seems to me that having paid High-Point Rendell to conduct the initial investigation as an independant consultant, then paid them again for a further detailed investigation, the Council appears to be doing everything in it's power to damn their findings. Fourteen months were spent negotiating with High-Point Rendell in order to produce a finalised report with a more "comfortable" set of words which the Council could accept, and now they wish to "rubbish" the finalised report with the findings of Professor Younger.
I made an earlier post which illustrated that these practises would never be allowed in the private sector. An independant report, which had been commissioned and paid for, who be acted upon immediately. The recommendations would have been carried out, otherwise heads might roll! In the private sector there would be no negotiations with the independant assessors to water down the contents of their report - they would remain completely independant.
Professor Younger's Comments in the Shields Gazette - click here
BBC News Report -click here
Tyne Tees Television report - click here
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