IT IS essential that our elected county council members receive the unbiased and balanced views expressed by the Wiltshire Waste Forum meetings. So it was mystifying to me how the report for the fourth meeting of the Waste local run Forum on September 28, was so at odds with what actually took place at the forum.

I am also concerned that the alternatives to incineration are given the same opportunity for evaluation. The council's own advisers are on record in this meeting as saying that maybe incineration is not the best option for the rural county of Wiltshire.

For the county councillors to be advised in the best environmental option for the county, a full and not overtly biased evaluation of all technologies is essential. So far we have been denied this at Waste Forum meetings.

You get the feeling that government, backed by the Department of Trade and Industry, is behind these meetings. It's about time the policy emphasis shifted to the people who have to live with the outcome.

MR DR LEVY,

Chapmanslade,

Westbury.