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Campaigners reject Helius' biomass plans for Southampton
11:46am Monday 14th May 2012 in News
By Patrick Knox, Senior Reporter
The marine style plan for the Southampton biomass plant
A RENEWED bid for a £300m power station in Southampton has been rejected by local campaigners and city politicians.
Helius Energy hopes to win over doubters with its latest plans for a 100 megawatt wood-fuelled power station in the western docks.
Last year the plan sparked outrage from residents living yards away from the proposed site who feared the impact of pollution on their health.
Now details of a new plan has been released ahead of a 12 week consultation period during which the company hopes to win people round with its revised plan which will see it moved back a further 125m, its height reduced and three new possible designs.
Its chimney stack has also been increased to 100 m to avoid air pollution in the local area.
But No Southampton Biomass campaigner Eloisa Gil-Arranz said: “They have put it in a much better outfit and cosmetically lifted it, but effectively the proposal is not changed. It's still a huge power station.
“They have effectively moved it two football pitches away from people's homes.
“The thing I find really disappointing is the way they are promoting it. They are manipulating us to ask which of the three designs we like best but they have lost touch with the fact that we don't want a power station.”
Outgoing Southampton city leader Royston Smith said he was not impressed with the plan.
He said: “It is still huge and you can't have this great big monstrosity that would sit at the end of Foundry Lane. There are still concerns about the pollution levels.”
Labour group leader Richard Williams, whose party pledged to oppose the plan in its manifesto, dubbed the latest design as “green wash”.
He said: “It is cosmetic and does not change the underlying rationale of the development. It is environmentally wrong, it's socially wrong and it's a purely opportunistic development.”
Comments(56)
Saint&Sinner
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12:29pm Mon 14 May 12
freemantlegirl2
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12:30pm Mon 14 May 12
http://nosouthampton
biomass.co.uk/biomas
s_fuel.html
A good informed debate is a decent one :)
The Salv
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12:34pm Mon 14 May 12
Rhombus
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12:43pm Mon 14 May 12
The Salv wrote:Its fine but do you live under its proposed shadow? Thought not.
What's this, an industrial plant being built in a working dock bringing jobs and prosperity to the area and keeping and producing key engineering skills for the future and giving young people hope of a career. It's an utter disgrace!”
The Salv
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12:50pm Mon 14 May 12
Rhombus wrote:Oh right, didnt realise the only people that are allowed to have a say were NIMBY's.
The Salv wrote: What's this, an industrial plant being built in a working dock bringing jobs and prosperity to the area and keeping and producing key engineering skills for the future and giving young people hope of a career. It's an utter disgrace!”Its fine but do you live under its proposed shadow? Thought not.
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If you want to campaign about something how about letting Nuclear Subs into a working port that has no benefit to the City what so ever, at least this will create jobs and industry.
southy
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12:52pm Mon 14 May 12
The Salv wrote:99% of them so called jobs will not be jobs for the locals, like the building of the plant will be done mostly by the building contractors traveling work force, and it will not be 240 jobs from day one to the day its finished, more than likely there will be only about 30 people working there at one time, the jobs that will come after the plant is finished you will have dock workers doing the quay side stuff so no extra full time jobs there, and transport will not employ more people, the only extra jobs will be the techical staff who will be bought in to run the place from any where around the world.
Rhombus wrote:Oh right, didnt realise the only people that are allowed to have a say were NIMBY's.
The Salv wrote: What's this, an industrial plant being built in a working dock bringing jobs and prosperity to the area and keeping and producing key engineering skills for the future and giving young people hope of a career. It's an utter disgrace!”Its fine but do you live under its proposed shadow? Thought not.
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If you want to campaign about something how about letting Nuclear Subs into a working port that has no benefit to the City what so ever, at least this will create jobs and industry.
soton-mike80
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12:52pm Mon 14 May 12
LOL - this quote from Eloisa Gil-Arranz made me laugh... Perhaps if you said to the "locals" that in the future they will not be able to power their B-Boxes, Playstations, TVs, DVDs, Cookers, lights, storage heaters - they may just change their minds!
Reality check people - If we do not build new power stations - we will suffer rolling black-outs when the fossil fuels and nuclear power stations become overwhelmed by demand.
I do understand that residents don't want to have to look at it and it would be an eye-sore, but realistically people - it is going to ruin someone's views wherever you build it - and they do need to build it!
So, either stop using electricity or get used to the idea that these power stations will be have to be built somewhere!
southy
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12:57pm Mon 14 May 12
Another error is that it reduces the Carbon Foot Print, it do not even do this, it releases the same amount of carbon that it soaks up while growing, it increases the cabon footprint though transport.
Torchie1
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1:02pm Mon 14 May 12
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
Blatella
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1:17pm Mon 14 May 12
southy
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1:17pm Mon 14 May 12
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
Brusher Mills
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1:29pm Mon 14 May 12
phil maccavity
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1:37pm Mon 14 May 12
No harm came to any of the people who lived right on the doorstep.
People were less 'precious' then, of course.
With a major road and railway between the docks and the good people of Freemantle, is there really a problem?
Rhombus
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1:41pm Mon 14 May 12
Blatella wrote:I hear Fratton Park is free
Do you think they could site in Portsmouth?
southy
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1:46pm Mon 14 May 12
phil maccavity wrote:Did you ever see pictures of the area while it was still a coal power station, before the switch to gas power station. the area was black with soot, I can remember that old power station but not when it was a coal power station even when they pulled the place down there was still a lot of soot left around from the days when it use coal.
For many years, up until the 1960's, a large coal power generating station (proabably bigger than the planned Biomass site) was sited at the bottom of Station Hill, where Toys R Us is now) ie close to housing, the railway station, city centre and adjacent to the Lido.
No harm came to any of the people who lived right on the doorstep.
People were less 'precious' then, of course.
With a major road and railway between the docks and the good people of Freemantle, is there really a problem?
southy
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2:03pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote: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.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
Andy Locks Heath
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2:05pm Mon 14 May 12
Saint&Sinner wrote:You are wrong. There is no deepwater quay sufficient to dock a bulk carrier, no rail link and limited road links. And moreover the high stack means that those living nearby are at almost no risk of any pollution from flue gases whereas if you move it 10 miles away you are at higher risk. So in what way is the location "better"?
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
Torchie1
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2:14pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote:It doesn't surprise me to learn that the nationalised CEGB planned a power station under a Labour government that was powered by coal produced by another nationalised industry, the NCB even though it was a short pipeline length from the biggest refinery in the UK which could sell a cheap product to fire the power station boilers. Aside from that, the small tankers that visit the site don't require the same depth as much larger coal carrying vessels and in turn the vessels carrying wood will require greater depth because they will be even bigger in order to make the proposition viable. You are also assuming that the land can be rented out but N-Power are very limited on what they can do because they are within the boundary of the National Park Authority.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
Andy Locks Heath
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2:16pm Mon 14 May 12
freemantlegirl2 wrote:I hope you are not classing me as ill informed and abusive, but I have consistently pointed out factual errors, misinformation and subjective hyperbole and you have consistently failed to check your own misapprehensions, so you should be careful using that argument against others. As wih all campaigning websites, the small kernel of good information is spoiled by a burden of pointless, irrelevant subjective nonsense. How you can include the impact of local children seeing the power station or even more nonsensically - cruise tourists having their cruises spoiled by seeing it - simply makes the rest of your arguments look suspect. If you and Freefinker want to get into detailed the economic analysis for the hundredth time it might be worthwhile if only you modified the repeated factual errors but you don't - you just persist with falsehoods.
I don't think so Osprey, although yes the location is ridiculous!. I didn't know much about biomass before this (except for the home small versions) but when you read up about it, Richard Williams sums it up it's 'Greenwash' the government give huge subsidies but long-term it's neither green nor sustainable. If you'd like to read some more check out the No Biomass website which contains some information about biomass, different types, etc. There have been some very ill-informed and abusive people on here in the past. I hope that they will read up on the subject and base their decisions on ALL arguments...
http://nosouthampton
biomass.co.uk/biomas
s_fuel.html
A good informed debate is a decent one :)
Andy Locks Heath
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2:21pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote:Southy you ought to know that any factory only employs a small number of jobs - but its presence sustains hundreds of others, Every single interaction with the local environment whether it is delivering food to the canteen or taking away the rubbish, sustains jobs. Don't you remember how important a pit employing 300 miners was to a village of 7500 people and how Socialist Worker used this very same argument of recycling wealth and secondary jobs to argue against pit closures? Now you are taking a tory view of job numbers. Why have you changed?
The Salv wrote:99% of them so called jobs will not be jobs for the locals, like the building of the plant will be done mostly by the building contractors traveling work force, and it will not be 240 jobs from day one to the day its finished, more than likely there will be only about 30 people working there at one time, the jobs that will come after the plant is finished you will have dock workers doing the quay side stuff so no extra full time jobs there, and transport will not employ more people, the only extra jobs will be the techical staff who will be bought in to run the place from any where around the world.
Rhombus wrote:Oh right, didnt realise the only people that are allowed to have a say were NIMBY's.
The Salv wrote: What's this, an industrial plant being built in a working dock bringing jobs and prosperity to the area and keeping and producing key engineering skills for the future and giving young people hope of a career. It's an utter disgrace!”Its fine but do you live under its proposed shadow? Thought not.
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If you want to campaign about something how about letting Nuclear Subs into a working port that has no benefit to the City what so ever, at least this will create jobs and industry.
Torchie1
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2:22pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote: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.
southy wrote: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.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
lewissv
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2:26pm Mon 14 May 12
Andy Locks Heath
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2:28pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote:Southy that is rubbish. This power station was planned before the oil crisis of 1973 made oil fired stations uneconomical. It does not burn "waste" oil as you say- it burns heavy bunker fuel oil supplied by pipeline from the oil refinery next door and was designed from the beginning to do so - hence its location. As for your coal idea You are getting confused with Fawley "B" which was planned as a coal fired plant in the early 80s but never built, and no deepwater channel was ever dredged because it never got past the planning stage. I still have all the plans in a box in my loft! You seem to be confusing the Fawley "A" cooling water channels with a deepwater quayside which is completely different and innapropriate.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
Ted Rogers
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2:29pm Mon 14 May 12
Andy Locks Heath wrote:Couldn't agree more.
freemantlegirl2 wrote: I don't think so Osprey, although yes the location is ridiculous!. I didn't know much about biomass before this (except for the home small versions) but when you read up about it, Richard Williams sums it up it's 'Greenwash' the government give huge subsidies but long-term it's neither green nor sustainable. If you'd like to read some more check out the No Biomass website which contains some information about biomass, different types, etc. There have been some very ill-informed and abusive people on here in the past. I hope that they will read up on the subject and base their decisions on ALL arguments... http://nosouthampton biomass.co.uk/biomas s_fuel.html A good informed debate is a decent one :)I hope you are not classing me as ill informed and abusive, but I have consistently pointed out factual errors, misinformation and subjective hyperbole and you have consistently failed to check your own misapprehensions, so you should be careful using that argument against others. As wih all campaigning websites, the small kernel of good information is spoiled by a burden of pointless, irrelevant subjective nonsense. How you can include the impact of local children seeing the power station or even more nonsensically - cruise tourists having their cruises spoiled by seeing it - simply makes the rest of your arguments look suspect. If you and Freefinker want to get into detailed the economic analysis for the hundredth time it might be worthwhile if only you modified the repeated factual errors but you don't - you just persist with falsehoods.
She should just simply say (be honest) I don't want it near my house, regardless of any merits.
'A good debate where everyone agrees with me without question is a decent one...'
acid drop
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2:30pm Mon 14 May 12
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Definitly
Is it a case of good idea but wrong location?
acid drop
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2:30pm Mon 14 May 12
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Definitly
Is it a case of good idea but wrong location?
southy
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2:40pm Mon 14 May 12
Torchie1 wrote:You need to know when plans for the power station was drawn up, the Refinery was only just got pass the planning stage, and Churchill was in power not Labour. The refinery jetty is not the power station dock they are at different locations and there was only one time a ship as been moored there and that was a large iron ore bulk carrier in the 80's larger than any wood chip carrier, there has been no other ship in the intake channel. and having a depth of 5.8 below low water is more than enough depth for any wood ship.
southy wrote:It doesn't surprise me to learn that the nationalised CEGB planned a power station under a Labour government that was powered by coal produced by another nationalised industry, the NCB even though it was a short pipeline length from the biggest refinery in the UK which could sell a cheap product to fire the power station boilers. Aside from that, the small tankers that visit the site don't require the same depth as much larger coal carrying vessels and in turn the vessels carrying wood will require greater depth because they will be even bigger in order to make the proposition viable. You are also assuming that the land can be rented out but N-Power are very limited on what they can do because they are within the boundary of the National Park Authority.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
The land comes under New Forest district council and not the National Park Authority
southy
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2:53pm Mon 14 May 12
Andy Locks Heath wrote:Andy thats why the deep water channel is on marine charts I given the measurement off the Docking area, Bunker oil is what is known as waste oil Andy, the plans for the power station was drawn up in the 50's.
southy wrote:Southy that is rubbish. This power station was planned before the oil crisis of 1973 made oil fired stations uneconomical. It does not burn "waste" oil as you say- it burns heavy bunker fuel oil supplied by pipeline from the oil refinery next door and was designed from the beginning to do so - hence its location. As for your coal idea You are getting confused with Fawley "B" which was planned as a coal fired plant in the early 80s but never built, and no deepwater channel was ever dredged because it never got past the planning stage. I still have all the plans in a box in my loft! You seem to be confusing the Fawley "A" cooling water channels with a deepwater quayside which is completely different and innapropriate.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
The cooling water channel was where the 1000 meter dock was going to be, if you go down there you can still see the test piles that mark out the area of the dock
southy
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3:01pm Mon 14 May 12
Torchie1 wrote:I all ways said its in the wrong location.
southy wrote: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.
southy wrote: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.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
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
phil maccavity
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3:22pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote:Usual ill informed rubbish Southy
Torchie1 wrote:You need to know when plans for the power station was drawn up, the Refinery was only just got pass the planning stage, and Churchill was in power not Labour. The refinery jetty is not the power station dock they are at different locations and there was only one time a ship as been moored there and that was a large iron ore bulk carrier in the 80's larger than any wood chip carrier, there has been no other ship in the intake channel. and having a depth of 5.8 below low water is more than enough depth for any wood ship.
southy wrote:It doesn't surprise me to learn that the nationalised CEGB planned a power station under a Labour government that was powered by coal produced by another nationalised industry, the NCB even though it was a short pipeline length from the biggest refinery in the UK which could sell a cheap product to fire the power station boilers. Aside from that, the small tankers that visit the site don't require the same depth as much larger coal carrying vessels and in turn the vessels carrying wood will require greater depth because they will be even bigger in order to make the proposition viable. You are also assuming that the land can be rented out but N-Power are very limited on what they can do because they are within the boundary of the National Park Authority.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
The land comes under New Forest district council and not the National Park Authority
Most of these big bulk ships have a minimum draft of 9 metres, most above 10m and then there is a required minimum 0.5m + of under keel clearance as the ships are not permitted to sit on the bottom at low water
Unless you can name the 'large iron ore bulk carrier in the 80's' I guess we will have to put this down to another figment of your colourful imagination!!!!!!!!!
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loosehead
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3:25pm Mon 14 May 12
Centrica has announced as it's raw materials are going up it will be looking to raise it's costs 15% this year.
If these people were complaining about losing the American dump with all it's tree's & wildlife I could agree with them to a point but no one complained about it as it was reclaimed land owned by the docks,
First they built the new road & the remainder of the land is a tip for many type of products.
One of these has caught fire billowing smoke all over the city how can they say if it was toxic or not? did they have people catching the smoke?
These NIMBY's prefer these scrap piles for the view? can't be for their health surely?
This company has changed it's design & has listened to the ones who actually have talked to them yet these NIMBY's still say NO.
I was born & bred in that area & with all the problems there this is nothing & it's a pity the NO brigade isn't as vocal about the problems instead of a Generator who's fire & safety measures will be far greater than a scrapheap
Cookiecutter
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3:42pm Mon 14 May 12
Over the Edge
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3:52pm Mon 14 May 12
Cookiecutter
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4:07pm Mon 14 May 12
We really do need to think this biomass energy production through and use only the type of product that causes no damage to land, air or sea and burning wood, whether in pellet form or as broken furniture, is definitely not a good idea.
phil maccavity
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4:23pm Mon 14 May 12
Cookiecutter wrote:........'Britain has no trees to with which to speak off'......
Britain has no tree's with which to speak off and the New Forest is a joke around the world with barely a tree to be seen oh lots of bushes and maybe the immigrants think them as tree's since most come from a dessert, Pakistan or Poland in today's Britain. But no matter how high you build the stack there is always fallout. I don't care how stringent rules and regulations are made there will always be someone who comes along and say Oppp! a valve stuck and it caused a leak. Or heaven forbid another earthquake comes along like in Japan and everything get washed out to sea. And then there's the oil platform out at sea that exploded in fire killing so many people fish and wildlife.
We really do need to think this biomass energy production through and use only the type of product that causes no damage to land, air or sea and burning wood, whether in pellet form or as broken furniture, is definitely not a good idea.
Nearly 7m acres of the Uk is designated as Forest ie nearly 12% of the land area.
Any way of minor consequence as according to Helius most of the product will be imported
Will be interested in the type of product that causes no damage to land, sea or air.
Is there one?
ohec
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4:28pm Mon 14 May 12
Andy Locks Heath
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5:11pm Mon 14 May 12
ohec wrote:I don't disagree with you at all on the nuclear option ohec. Regarding Green credentials it is important to consider what is the niche benefit of biomass stations such as this in the overall power generation portfolio. This station would not be required 24x7 and would probably kick in when demand was highest, especially in winter when true "green" supplies can be at their most unreliable. Its main virtues apart from its reliability are that a) it can be fired up at fairly short notice and b) its feedstock is plentiful, multi sourced and it has growing potential for local markets despite what is claimed on the website (which is wrong on this point). If the council chose to collaborate on a CHP scheme the station's value would increase further but inept, weak and badly informed councillors will miss this opportunity as they have missed so many others in this town.
There are three main arguments here, (1) is location, (2) is need and (3) is it green. I don't think you could blame anybody for not wanting it on their doorstep, but that is a very weak argument as can be seen from the comments above, from my point of view i don't want to see the country littered with these mickey mouse power stations that i believe will have a very short lifespan i would prefer large nuclear power stations. Yes we do need power and if they don't start building nuclear power stations soon we will be short of power in years to come,nobody has yet come up with a viable alternative, wind farms that produce very little and then only with the right kind of wind, wave power and all of the other silly idea's. Is it GREEN yes(i joke) we are going to have ships bringing all sorts of fuel halfway round the world we are ruining land in other countries to provide us with some of the fuels used in these mickey mouse power stations so its about as green as the sky. So like i said before the only way forward is nuclear.
Andy Locks Heath
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5:22pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote: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.
Torchie1 wrote:I all ways said its in the wrong location.
southy wrote: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.
southy wrote: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.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
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
phil maccavity
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7:25pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote:Another mistake from Southy
Andy Locks Heath wrote:Andy thats why the deep water channel is on marine charts I given the measurement off the Docking area, Bunker oil is what is known as waste oil Andy, the plans for the power station was drawn up in the 50's.
southy wrote:Southy that is rubbish. This power station was planned before the oil crisis of 1973 made oil fired stations uneconomical. It does not burn "waste" oil as you say- it burns heavy bunker fuel oil supplied by pipeline from the oil refinery next door and was designed from the beginning to do so - hence its location. As for your coal idea You are getting confused with Fawley "B" which was planned as a coal fired plant in the early 80s but never built, and no deepwater channel was ever dredged because it never got past the planning stage. I still have all the plans in a box in my loft! You seem to be confusing the Fawley "A" cooling water channels with a deepwater quayside which is completely different and innapropriate.
Torchie1 wrote: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
Saint&Sinner wrote: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.
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
The cooling water channel was where the 1000 meter dock was going to be, if you go down there you can still see the test piles that mark out the area of the dock
Bunker Fuel is not 'waste', it is heavy oil used by most ships as fuel and is specially produced at most Oil Refineries including Fawley.
It is also relatively expensive so can hardly be described as 'waste'.
Andy is also correct about the large bulk carriers being laid up for a while off Hamble
Fatty x Ford Worker
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7:52pm Mon 14 May 12
Jamez3000
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8:03pm Mon 14 May 12
Brusher Mills wrote:How can you say its in an Industrial area? Its location is only 250 metres away from a highly populated residential area! However it looks at the end of the day its a power station being proposed in a residential area.
Think it looks alright, will make the area look better, next to a busy road, scrap metal and the Freemantle area. Makes since to build it in an already industrial area.
IronLady2010
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8:27pm Mon 14 May 12
southy wrote:You my lovely are getting worse with every post you make! Are you for real or are you pulling everyones chain?
The Salv wrote:99% of them so called jobs will not be jobs for the locals, like the building of the plant will be done mostly by the building contractors traveling work force, and it will not be 240 jobs from day one to the day its finished, more than likely there will be only about 30 people working there at one time, the jobs that will come after the plant is finished you will have dock workers doing the quay side stuff so no extra full time jobs there, and transport will not employ more people, the only extra jobs will be the techical staff who will be bought in to run the place from any where around the world.
Rhombus wrote:Oh right, didnt realise the only people that are allowed to have a say were NIMBY's.
The Salv wrote: What's this, an industrial plant being built in a working dock bringing jobs and prosperity to the area and keeping and producing key engineering skills for the future and giving young people hope of a career. It's an utter disgrace!”Its fine but do you live under its proposed shadow? Thought not.
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If you want to campaign about something how about letting Nuclear Subs into a working port that has no benefit to the City what so ever, at least this will create jobs and industry.
IronLady2010
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8:41pm Mon 14 May 12
IronLady2010 wrote:Where do you get the facts of 99% of jobs won't be local and how would TUSC rectify your statement?
southy wrote:You my lovely are getting worse with every post you make! Are you for real or are you pulling everyones chain?
The Salv wrote:99% of them so called jobs will not be jobs for the locals, like the building of the plant will be done mostly by the building contractors traveling work force, and it will not be 240 jobs from day one to the day its finished, more than likely there will be only about 30 people working there at one time, the jobs that will come after the plant is finished you will have dock workers doing the quay side stuff so no extra full time jobs there, and transport will not employ more people, the only extra jobs will be the techical staff who will be bought in to run the place from any where around the world.
Rhombus wrote:Oh right, didnt realise the only people that are allowed to have a say were NIMBY's.
The Salv wrote: What's this, an industrial plant being built in a working dock bringing jobs and prosperity to the area and keeping and producing key engineering skills for the future and giving young people hope of a career. It's an utter disgrace!”Its fine but do you live under its proposed shadow? Thought not.
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If you want to campaign about something how about letting Nuclear Subs into a working port that has no benefit to the City what so ever, at least this will create jobs and industry.
IronLady2010
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8:45pm Mon 14 May 12
IronLady2010 wrote:Also Mouthy, these workers from abroad, I guess they'll bring their own food and clothes so as not to include in our local economy.
IronLady2010 wrote:Where do you get the facts of 99% of jobs won't be local and how would TUSC rectify your statement?
southy wrote:You my lovely are getting worse with every post you make! Are you for real or are you pulling everyones chain?
The Salv wrote:99% of them so called jobs will not be jobs for the locals, like the building of the plant will be done mostly by the building contractors traveling work force, and it will not be 240 jobs from day one to the day its finished, more than likely there will be only about 30 people working there at one time, the jobs that will come after the plant is finished you will have dock workers doing the quay side stuff so no extra full time jobs there, and transport will not employ more people, the only extra jobs will be the techical staff who will be bought in to run the place from any where around the world.
Rhombus wrote:Oh right, didnt realise the only people that are allowed to have a say were NIMBY's.
The Salv wrote: What's this, an industrial plant being built in a working dock bringing jobs and prosperity to the area and keeping and producing key engineering skills for the future and giving young people hope of a career. It's an utter disgrace!”Its fine but do you live under its proposed shadow? Thought not.
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If you want to campaign about something how about letting Nuclear Subs into a working port that has no benefit to the City what so ever, at least this will create jobs and industry.
arthur dalyrimple
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8:58pm Mon 14 May 12
IronLady2010
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9:04pm Mon 14 May 12
arthur dalyrimple wrote:I'm sure the hackers can swing the vote. You know the hackers whom Mouthy is obsessed with. According to Mouthy every website is hacked and we can't believe a word, we all have to listen to Mouthy's OFFICIAL statements as they are genuine. Love him x
a offer of free electric for the locals in freemantle might swing it their way?
IronLady2010
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9:07pm Mon 14 May 12
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loosehead
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9:12pm Mon 14 May 12
Jamez3000 wrote:Sorry residential?
Brusher Mills wrote:How can you say its in an Industrial area? Its location is only 250 metres away from a highly populated residential area! However it looks at the end of the day its a power station being proposed in a residential area.
Think it looks alright, will make the area look better, next to a busy road, scrap metal and the Freemantle area. Makes since to build it in an already industrial area.
How many houses are on the six lanes of traffic called Millbrook rd?
Then when your past them you have Millbrook train station ( or are you trying to get that renamed) then a path & then you have to go even further back to the proposed site so how the hell's this residential?
We have houses in Millbrook but we have an industrial estate as well as every other industrial/commercia
l area in this city.
We had Marchwood power station did anyone complain that it was to close to houses & get it pulled down?
I have a friend who lives in Marchwood quite happily with or with out a power station.
Did any of you kick up about the new Gas power station on the Waterside? NO why not this isn't far from houses.
do you think this would matter if Fawley went up or Hamble?
This is far enough away & if the fire & safety measures failed you would have a big fire a Nuclear plant would wipe the area out if it went & how much would your house prices drop if they built a nuclear plant there?
I live in Lordshill in a two bedroom terrace house any one with a three/two bed semi who own their property & would swap I'd be willing to talk to my wife & contacting you & I wouldn't be part of the NO campaign
loosehead
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9:17pm Mon 14 May 12
arthur dalyrimple wrote:Arthur I suggested that they should go to talks with Helius & get hot water for heating & washing cheap from the plant for the local area.
a offer of free electric for the locals in freemantle might swing it their way?
They won't try to get the best for all the NIMBY's only think of themselves & refuse to negotiate but just say NO.
It's called CHP
IronLady2010
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9:37pm Mon 14 May 12
loosehead wrote:The point is Loosehead, this will rightly go ahead. Right now, people have a choice, make the wrong choice and they have to live with it!
arthur dalyrimple wrote:Arthur I suggested that they should go to talks with Helius & get hot water for heating & washing cheap from the plant for the local area.
a offer of free electric for the locals in freemantle might swing it their way?
They won't try to get the best for all the NIMBY's only think of themselves & refuse to negotiate but just say NO.
It's called CHP
forest hump
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9:38pm Mon 14 May 12
Cookiecutter wrote:go curl up in a ball and live in a cave then
Britain has no tree's with which to speak off and the New Forest is a joke around the world with barely a tree to be seen oh lots of bushes and maybe the immigrants think them as tree's since most come from a dessert, Pakistan or Poland in today's Britain. But no matter how high you build the stack there is always fallout. I don't care how stringent rules and regulations are made there will always be someone who comes along and say Oppp! a valve stuck and it caused a leak. Or heaven forbid another earthquake comes along like in Japan and everything get washed out to sea. And then there's the oil platform out at sea that exploded in fire killing so many people fish and wildlife. We really do need to think this biomass energy production through and use only the type of product that causes no damage to land, air or sea and burning wood, whether in pellet form or as broken furniture, is definitely not a good idea.
IronLady2010
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9:40pm Mon 14 May 12
IronLady2010 wrote:One way or another, this will go-ahead. No Company is going to spend so much money for it to be declined.
loosehead wrote:The point is Loosehead, this will rightly go ahead. Right now, people have a choice, make the wrong choice and they have to live with it!
arthur dalyrimple wrote:Arthur I suggested that they should go to talks with Helius & get hot water for heating & washing cheap from the plant for the local area.
a offer of free electric for the locals in freemantle might swing it their way?
They won't try to get the best for all the NIMBY's only think of themselves & refuse to negotiate but just say NO.
It's called CHP
They have already researched got planning (unofficially) etc.
Watch and wait................
IronLady2010
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9:42pm Mon 14 May 12
IronLady2010 wrote:Probably why Labour got control?????
IronLady2010 wrote:One way or another, this will go-ahead. No Company is going to spend so much money for it to be declined.
loosehead wrote:The point is Loosehead, this will rightly go ahead. Right now, people have a choice, make the wrong choice and they have to live with it!
arthur dalyrimple wrote:Arthur I suggested that they should go to talks with Helius & get hot water for heating & washing cheap from the plant for the local area.
a offer of free electric for the locals in freemantle might swing it their way?
They won't try to get the best for all the NIMBY's only think of themselves & refuse to negotiate but just say NO.
It's called CHP
They have already researched got planning (unofficially) etc.
Watch and wait................
Hundreds of Union workers to say yes sir Bahh Bahhhh, how much woll would you like bahhhhhh
loosehead
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9:33am Tue 15 May 12
IronLady2010 wrote:But they could have negotiated a sweet deal as the waste hot water could have been used in the same way the Geo Thermal water's used to heat their homes & provide hot water.
IronLady2010 wrote:One way or another, this will go-ahead. No Company is going to spend so much money for it to be declined.
loosehead wrote:The point is Loosehead, this will rightly go ahead. Right now, people have a choice, make the wrong choice and they have to live with it!
arthur dalyrimple wrote:Arthur I suggested that they should go to talks with Helius & get hot water for heating & washing cheap from the plant for the local area.
a offer of free electric for the locals in freemantle might swing it their way?
They won't try to get the best for all the NIMBY's only think of themselves & refuse to negotiate but just say NO.
It's called CHP
They have already researched got planning (unofficially) etc.
Watch and wait................
A few who saw this as devaluing their homes kicked up got others to believe in their argument & as with the council workers they can't see an opportunity when it smacks them in the face.
Funny how Labour put it in their manifesto so close to elections yet Don Thomas thought that Helius had ticked all the boxes?
sarfhamton
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12:15pm Wed 16 May 12
OSPREYSAINT says...
12:04pm Mon 14 May 12