New biomass plans a 'greenwash' (From Daily Echo)

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  Dan Soton wrote:
  

  Andy Locks Heath wrote:
  

  Dan Soton wrote:
  

  Dan Soton wrote:
  Green hogs wash.
  
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  I couldn't agree more, the whole project is bogus.
  
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  Helius a loss making company with a market cap of £19.22m purposes to build a £300m power station, I wouldn't give them the job demolishing it.

  Bogus green hogs wash.
  
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  Has loss making Helius secured a one, two or ten year supply of wood ?
  
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  Think of Fawley Oil Refinery in 10 years and read on ...
  
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  biomass power companies face increasing competition for wood from oil companies producing biofuels
  
  
  
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  Biomass energy set to double in EU by 2020.
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  11 May 2012.
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  In most countries, biomass will serve only local markets, because it is uneconomic to move it more than 150km by road, and he warned that power companies are likely to face increasing competition for wood from oil companies producing biofuels.
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  Wood “will become an increasingly scarce and valuable resource, in high demand not only from traditional users but also from energy companies, industrialists switching to green energy and producers of emerging bio-based products,” said FVIM’s other co-managing director Paul Delesenne.
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  hsdgyv

  This is what you get when you release a bunch of amateurs loose on the internet and call it "research". I would not expect this unsubstantiated misconstrued regurgitated nonsense at GCSE level, but when it is supported by councillors rather than checked and corrected then I wonder what made some of these councillors stand for office in the first place. Almost all the content of the above letter is drivel and it is clear Richard Williams knows as much about power generation as some of the above posters understand about business.

  Bravo.. I award you a GCSE A* for your rhetorical frippery
  
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  if it's not too much to ask.. a few lines on why you support Helius ?

  Dan, I don't "support" Helius - I don't care which company gets the capital to build the plant - but I am strongly in favour of balanced guaranteed power generation. We rely on thermal for the bulk of our supply - if we want to phase out coal we need a new generation of small quick reaction thermal stations using other thermal feedstock fuels that can be used to backup The Green's precious renewable supplies when they do not deliver. If you want wave wind and sun you must also have biomass, gas and nuclear. Woodchip is by far the most sensible thermal fuel - it is fairly cheap - a lot of it is by product from other processes, a lot of it can be sourced in the UK (eventually)and we will raise domestic supply to meet demand (in 25 years). As for the location, when all those houses were built in Foundry Lane there was a coal power station up the road belching hydrocarbons nitrous oxides and sulphuric acids where Toys R Us is today at a far higher rate than this new station will do. Nobody died then and nobody will die now. Flue gases are scrubbed to remove heavy particulates and light gaseous emissions do not pollute the immediate neighbourhood as anyone with eyes in their head should know without needing to be told. The location in a port is ideal for initial import of fuel stock and road and rail links for future domestic supplies. The plant will produce steam which I agree is a problem as it is not being used for local CHP but it will produce very little smoke and it will not pollute the immediate environment. People in East Anglia have more to worry about than those in Freemantle. I won't bore you with timber production or power generation stats but these have been misunderstood and misquoted by Freefinker, Freemantle Girl and other armchair experts."
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