MADAM - Once again on the SNJ letters page under “What you are saying on our website”, you include comments from a “Bonkim” relating to waste management – in this case calling Glosvain “misguided pseudo-environmentalists”, an insult that deserves an equally robust reply when you consider the wide range of local people of all political persuasions who support Glosvain and SDC in opposing the overpriced and unnecessary proposed blot on the landscape which is the Javelin Park incinerator proposal.

But who is “Bonkim”?

For published letters, most newspapers, including yourselves, require name and location to be also published, unless there is a very good reason for withholding this.

Anonymity is not allowed.

But the same rules don’t seem to apply online, where a pseudonym is accepted.

Whilst you, the SNJ, will know the individual’s identity, it seems manifestly unfair that people can snipe away whilst their identity remains hidden from us.

I think the same rules ought to apply to all public media.

So – I am Chris Harmer, I am a Green Party member, I am a member of the Glosvain core group, I am a director of Zero Waste England, and I live at Rockness Hill, Nailsworth.

I have no need or wish to hide my identity or affiliations.

So who are you Bonkim?

You have a lot to say about waste management, and you also comment in the Journal of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM).

I read that journal because I am an affiliate of the CIWM, and to have access to that journal you must be a member as well.

So that narrows things down a lot as you must be a waste professional, such as a council officer or waste company manager.

In the CIWM journal for the first of April, you say “waste to energy plants are the best environmental solution” which again says a lot, and in the SNJ comment you rubbish MBT.

I have a very good idea indeed as to who you might be Mr Bonkim, but would it not be courteous if you “came out” yourself?

And if you won’t own up, then please shut up.

But please, Madam, let’s have a level playing field between media.

Chris Harmer

Nailsworth