We started as a couple of community residents - alarmed that Rayneau Construction, a St Lucia based company was building an industrial complex, literally on our doorsteps in Woodford, St. John and unmindful and uncaring about the impact on health, safety and harm to the environment.
The plant was 10 times closer than the regulatory distance and the community was not consulted. We thought that government would protect us, instead they asked us to make sacrifice. Reasonable sacrifice, they called it...for a quarry, an asphalt plant and concrete batching to be 300 feet from our homes.
The fact that the Planning Authority can be considering - to retroactively grant approval to a company that built without permission and ignored multiple orders to stop work which has already led to much damage to the environment – is a testimony to what lies ahead for us in Woodford.
