A PUBLIC meeting over concerns about a new wood burning 'pyrolysis' power plant being planned for Monmouth's Hadnock Road is being held in the town next week.

Residents living in Hadnock Road and the nearby riverside mobile home park say they're alarmed about emissions, noise and traffic related to Crossdean Ltd's application to set up a Pyrolysis Power Plant – which thermochemically decomposes organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence of oxygen.

The overriding fear of campaigners fighting the wood burning plant is of the amount of toxins that will be released into the atmosphere.

The public meeting will be held at the Shire Hall, Monmouth next Wednesday (December 8) and starts at 7pm. It will feature two speakers, George Boyce, an industrial chemist for 40 years and Dr Dick van Steenis a retired GP who is an expert on health problems caused by emissions.