Campaigners reject biomass plans (From Daily Echo)

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  southy wrote:
  

  Torchie1 wrote:
  

  southy wrote:
  

  southy wrote:
  

  Torchie1 wrote:
  

  Saint&Sinner wrote:
  It would be better sited next to Fawley Power Station, plenty of room as plans for a fawley B station were shelved. It has a large deep dock for the material to be shipped in - Simples

  Good argument apart from the 'large deep dock' which it hasn't got and the land belongs to another company that doesn't have plans to sell it.

  Torchie you may not know the area to well but the intake channel was dredge out to be able to take large bulk coal ships, the first plans for Fawley power station was for a coal blast furnace it was after it was built but before the plants was put in was it decided to make it an waste oil burner power plant. It do have a large deep dock, and as for the land the docks is not selling the land and do not plan to sell it, The land will be rented out

  Torchie I just got out an old chart the Docking area at the moment is 500 meters long, 120 meters wide at a depth off 5.8 meters deep at the lowest astromical tide. it can be made into 1000 meters long very easy if need be.

  As you say, an 'old' docking chart which doesn't indicate that the unnecessary dredging has continued for fifty years when no vessel required it. As for how easy it is to clear the channel, I'm sure it is but why do this when a few miles up the water there are berths with the required depth, no width restrictions, no NPA restrictions and freely available industrial land? I'd have a lot more respect if you just admitted to being a NIMBY instead of turning up spurious reasons why the Helius plan can't go ahead as proposed.

  I all ways said its in the wrong location.
  It would not need dredging as it all ways been kept clear, and its more than wide enough its had an Iron ore bulk carrier lay up there for a few mths, and if it can take one of those ships it will be able to take any wood chip bulk carrier

  Southy you are confused. There were bulk carriers laid up in Southampton Water (I remember 4 at one time) but they were moored further up north of Hamble Oil terminal between Netley and After Barn, and not off the Power Station where there are no ship moorings. If you have a chart (which I am looking at right now) there is no ship channel or dredged mooring between the power station and the existing main channel, only the creek used for cooling water. For the third time there is no deepwater quay for biomass discharge anywhere near Fawley power station."
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