WE HAVE just seen Lafarge Cement making an admission that for the past two years "certain rogue employees" have deliberately falsified certification as supplied to their customers concerning the alkali content of cement shipped from its Westbury plant.

This has the potential of placing major civil engineering works at long-term structural risk due to alkali-silica reactivity (ASR) which is better known as "concrete cancer".

If it takes more than two years for Lafarge management oversight and mandatory quality assurance operating procedure audits to expose these gross malpractices then can we expect the same degree of integrity and professionalism when it comes to the self-regulated burning of Recycled Liquid Fuel (RLF), being highly toxic industrial solvent waste products?

Or maybe they will

simply dump these micro-particulate emissions, which are not trapped by the filters as currently installed, on the downwind footprint of the Westbury chimney thus putting at risk the long-term health of the local community by ingestion and thereby risking human cancer as well as concrete cancer?

All of this is happening within the stewardship of the Environment Agency and West Wiltshire Primary Care Trust/ Health Protection Agency.

B H WHITE Hyrstwood

Bratton