Post by Dave on Jan 25, 2011 21:30:24 GMT
Today I listened to one of the most usual debates I have ever heard on the J.Vine show. The council in Redditch, a town near Birmingham in central England are planning to heat the water in a new swimming pool that is in the pipeline to be built, by using the heat generated in the nearby crematorium. The distance between the two is about 400 yards and pipes would have to laid underground too connect the two together.
Redditch Borough Council, has said they have a commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions and this is the reason they are considering proposals to re-use energy at its crematorium. The heat would otherwise be exhausted into the atmosphere
However, the Unison trade union has condemned the plans, which are due to be discussed at a full meeting of the council on February 7.
"These proposals by Redditch Borough Council are sick and an insult to local residents," said Unison regional secretary Roger McKenzie.
"I call on Redditch Borough Council to apologise to local residents for the insulting and insensitive proposals."
McKenzie said the move was a sign of the "desperate policies" being pursued by local authorities as they try to deal with funding cuts imposed by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government.If approved, the heating scheme will be the first of its kind in Britain
Swimming pool to be heated by the dead is what some people are claiming and also it shows no respect to the dead, but is that really the case and is there anything really wrong with this idea?
I have a very great fear of being buried alive and so it’s the crematorium for me and I might even donate my organs for medical science because I want to make sure when they say I’m dead I really am.
I don’t think it would bother me one bit if I knew in behind the furnace were pipes where the water was being heated up as I burned away and pumped into the nearby swimming pool, In fact I think I might just chuckle at the thought of it.
But how would I feel swimming in a pool knowing the water was heated up at the nearby crematorium? Would I feel uncomfortable in the water, or not even give it much thought. Answers to follow, but I would love your views on this sudject.
Redditch Borough Council, has said they have a commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions and this is the reason they are considering proposals to re-use energy at its crematorium. The heat would otherwise be exhausted into the atmosphere
However, the Unison trade union has condemned the plans, which are due to be discussed at a full meeting of the council on February 7.
"These proposals by Redditch Borough Council are sick and an insult to local residents," said Unison regional secretary Roger McKenzie.
"I call on Redditch Borough Council to apologise to local residents for the insulting and insensitive proposals."
McKenzie said the move was a sign of the "desperate policies" being pursued by local authorities as they try to deal with funding cuts imposed by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government.If approved, the heating scheme will be the first of its kind in Britain
Swimming pool to be heated by the dead is what some people are claiming and also it shows no respect to the dead, but is that really the case and is there anything really wrong with this idea?
I have a very great fear of being buried alive and so it’s the crematorium for me and I might even donate my organs for medical science because I want to make sure when they say I’m dead I really am.
I don’t think it would bother me one bit if I knew in behind the furnace were pipes where the water was being heated up as I burned away and pumped into the nearby swimming pool, In fact I think I might just chuckle at the thought of it.
But how would I feel swimming in a pool knowing the water was heated up at the nearby crematorium? Would I feel uncomfortable in the water, or not even give it much thought. Answers to follow, but I would love your views on this sudject.
