COUNCILLOR SIMON KNOYLE - NEATH-PORT TALBOT COUNCILLOR

 
WHITEWASH FACEBOOK POST 24/3/2021 

WITH ADDITIONAL SPINNING to a CONCERNED GRANDMOTHER IN COMMENTS - WITH ANALYSIS

This test was made two moths prior to the flooding but not made public until June 2021 as part of a planning permission that allowed the developer to move 22,000 cubic metres of toxic waste next to the homes of Glynneath residents. 

Concerned grand-mother's grand-daughter was only 5 months old and born prematurely when the house was flooded twice with water running off the site. This happened within a week of their moving into the property. The baby would be potentially vulnerable to any contamination present.

The above image is the Chromium recorded in the relevant test, this information was available on the NPTC planning website. The following information was provided to him in an email on 19 March 2020. 

LAND CONTAMINATION - the land contamination testing has only been done to 0.5 metres in most places, it is an extremely shoddy attempt at testing for poisons etc. We know that Cuddy was dumping in the middle of the night and digging holes, dumping to at least 4 meters and covering up the material dumped, both actions raise alarm bells. No-one knows what is under the top layer soil. The image below is from a chemistry graduate and was attached to a subsequent email on the same date. 

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The safety conditions of deeper chemical testing were approved at the planning meeting of 8 September 2020.  

INTRODUCTION - there is no direct reference to any direct stimulus for this social media post, I have been asked etc could refer to anybody. This is a WHITEWASH post designed to cover up his historical corruption in relation to this site. His file of information will contain items he uses to spin his stories to the people he visits. We see a classic example of this when he writes to the MP Christina Rees with an offer to spin about Dai Richards. ( https://youtu.be/nNb1eMEK_7s )  This spinning relates to the Council of Death document in which he is named as covering up historical malpractice at NPTC. 

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Classic spinning tactic - he's looking for a face to face meeting, see MP example  https://youtu.be/nNb1eMEK_7s

She's not falling for that one............ 

so Knoyle defines the question..............

This is classic Simon Knoyle fabrication. If we refer to his next but one comment where he mentions 3 tests. He received the following information by email on 18 March 2020 that related to information that was available on the NPTCBC planning portal about the development in question.

The above analysis was based upon the test in general and the relevant chromium information included in that test which can be seen below. 

The above image is the Chromium recorded in the relevant 2019 test. 

In this instance when Simon Knoyle says "No, from the information I have received" he means he hasn't specifically received the information but he has received it as part of the complete test results, if we look at his next comment he includes the following information:

I have sought from the relevant organisations involved in this scheme, there have been at least 3 sets of testing carried out recently.

The above image showing Chromium at the site is from one of those tests made in 2019 which means that Simon Knoyle is lying. 

This is a straightfoward question.

If we refer to the Concerned Grandmother's question we will see another case of paltering, lets look first at the question.

Is there any other known contamination of any description other than Chromium on the Enzo site at Heol y Glyn Glynneath? 

The question is simple and he states that......

You asked specifically if I am aware of any other known contamination on the site - the reason that I have answered in this fashion is because we have asked for additional and deeper testing to determine if there is any unknown contamination on the site,

This is classic council paltering known as 'protocol promise' and what it means is that 'they' the Council are going to do things right in the future. Councillor Knoyle is already aware that the council have been hiding a human health risk assessment from 2008 that had not been actioned and that the contamination remediation protocol had been bypassed in that instance. So the people of Glynneath have at that point had 12 years of living next to a toxic waste dump with a further 8 years of toxic waste to follow.

This is what he says about the historical testing: 

The test results indicated that the site had a small number of known contaminants which can be remediated

This is complete fabrication because according the pollution officer the sampling wasn't sufficient and most of the samples were at shallow depth.

Pollution officer............... "about the site investigations that have been done in the past. There was a site investigation in 2008 um which was um limited sampling quite shallow sampling and there was there was no asbestos sampling done at that time. Um then in 2019 in January and in March, Terra Firma did further sampling on site, again the sampling in my opinion wasn't sufficient. It was quite localized. most of the samples were at shallow depth...."

This information can be found in the following video of the contamination officer's report on the land which includes Simon Knoyle:  

It is important to note that most land in Wales is contaminated to a certain extent however, the Cuddy Group who previously owned the land were a remediation contractor who brought industrial waste onto the land so we see elevated levels of contamination across the site which means elevated levels of risk to human health. If we look at the test below the contamination in this test is taken from right behind the family of the Concerned Grandmother and it is these contaminants that could have potentially caused ill health to the family. The following test was available to Councillor Knoyle at the time. It is the 3rd of the 3 tests he mentions. 

It is also important to note that this test is likely to have been tampered with, one of the top level tests is missing. Councillor Knoyle refuses to provide the required Human Health Risk Assessment for this test. 

Without testing the complete site, there is no way of knowing what contamination was present so the statement.

The test results indicated that the site had a small number of known contaminants which can be remediated

is a clear fabrication of the status of the land designed to deceive 'concerned grandmother.

Unable to spin anymore and to provide the Concerned Grandmother with the truth which is that NPTC have been covering up the status of the land for 12 years and that her family are at risk of being poisoned Councillor Knoyle passes the Concerned Grandmother on to the man who is controlling and hiding the information about contamination at the site.

Let's see what Ceri Morris has just done 

On the 16th March, 8 days previous to that he has removed the testing for contamination of 20,000 cubic metres of toxic waste that can be moved closer to the property in which the Concerned Grandmother's family is living........

............ according to local residents who have been living next to the site, some for 50 years, each time there is a movement of land, a cluster of deaths occur in the vicinity, and this has been happening since around 2000.

The key element that identifies the deliberate Corporate Homicide of residents living next to the Heol-y-Glyn landfill site and beyond is the fact that NPTC still refuse to identify the site as a landfill site which it has been for most of the last 90 years. They still refuse to instruct the developer to undertake a detailed contamination testing of the site and to make that information public so that residents with a knowledge of chemical compounds can make an informed decision as to the actual status of the land.

Simon Knoyle did not reply. 

SIMON KNOYLE IS MADE AWARE THAT CHROMIUM IS ONE OF THE CONTAMINANTS IN THE FRENCH TOWN PSP CLUSTER.

KNOYLE DAVIES FACEBOOK - PSP COVER UP POST

Information from a Simon Knoyle Facebook post on 28 April 2022.

Councillor Knoyle states he has been in correspondence with the PSP expert Dr Golbe who states there is not enough information. Dr Golbe says there is no overlap with contamination however his analysis is based upon the information Dai Richards gave him, namely the 2008 test. Councillor Knoyle has not provided him with information from the 2019 or 2020 tests which he is aware of. These tests include chromium which would most likely have changed Dr Golbe's opinion on the overlapping of contaminants. 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EGRAC PSP REPORT

bottom image - Cllr Simon Knoyle was informed the chromium in the 2019 test may have potential health effects to residents. Councillor Knoyle was asked to chase up this information, however he did not, neither did provide this information to the PSP expert whose contamination effect analysis was based upon on the 2008 contamination test.

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 A post on Councillor Simon Knoyle's Facebook account timeline that targets EGRAC and offers to meet with people about the site. It is important to note that East Glynneath Residents Against Contamination are a group of residents whom Simon Knoyle is elected to represent in his role as a county councillor. He is paid to support these people. 

Following the post, in the comments a concerned grandmother questions him about the presence of Chromium at the site and other historical contamination. His response is to eventually send her to the head of planning Ceri Morris. It is important to note that the granddaughter in question is less than six months old and was born prematurely. She is a vulnerable child living in a row of houses where several people have recently died potentially from contamination related disorders. The block of house in which her son and family was living is the closest to the recent movement of contaminated soil which was tested and found to be contaminated up to 9 times the safety guidelines including lead. The house was flooded twice within a week with water running off the site which almost certainly contained these toxins from the site. Simon Knoyle has been covering up historic poisons and the contamination status of the site since March 2020.