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Fairlie's feelings about the proposed clean coal power station development at Hunterston

29 May
Jon Bassett recently made the following comment on s1 about the proposed clean coal power station development at Hunterston:

I was out walking today in the hills behind Largs and looked over the Inverclyde and the area set out for this development near to Hunterston. I tried to visualise the new plant with chimneys belching out smoke into our clean air and was appalled. It is time for us to step up to the mark and start to do something about this before the wheels of power start to turn too much.

Surely all the evidence is on the side of preventing this development - a retrograde step to a finite and dirty source of power with the tease of a potential future way of reducing the damage at some unspecified time in the future. We are the people that live here and we are the people this development will directly affect. The numpties at Holyrood or Westminster may or may not listen but it is our duty to take the argument to them.

Fairlie's Community Council recently voiced its fears about the fact that the clean coal power station had been included in the Scottish Government's national planning framework, and that the development will therefore be decided by Scottish Ministers and not North Ayrshire Council.

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30 May | 10:24:55

tom kane says

In general decisions made by NAC have seldom been in the public interest, the taint of corruption lies heavy in the minds of the people of North Ayrshire.
I think we must let the SNP executive have a mandate to govern even if it only proves they are a better choice than what we have got today. Without a reasonable majority no party can achieve anything.
tom kane

31 May | 11:24:38

Adam Mercer says

Jon - completely agree with your comments. Four in one of the local community are against this development and we need to make ourselves heard!

6 June | 3:15:40

Daniel Kerr says

I disagree with Tom's comments, we should not trust any political party to look after our interest. If we look back over the years history speaks for itself, how many times have we been sold down the river. This is too important an issue, don't let any political party decide your fate. It's up to the community to stand together for our children's and grandchildren's sake. If we alow this coal power station to go ahead I believe we are sitting on a potential time bomb.

17 June | 2:50:34

dan theman says

I posted back in February when I first heard of the proposed plant. This suggested plant is the SNP governments "cunning plan" to resolve the energy gap caused by their refusal to accept Nuclear Power. They would rather cover every green space outside area with windmills and put dirty coal power stations on the west coast. Their change to the national planning framework is so they can foist this on the area, just like they overturned the councils decision to refuse planning permission for the Windfarm.

28 July | 2:11:11

Gordon says

I was born and brought up at Hunterston, the nuclear plants did not bother me at all, they sit discreetly there and do not bother anyone. I would go for a third nuclear station any day.

I hate the idea of Clydeport wanting to build a coal station. What makes it really annoying about the proposal is there is lots of unused land within the old British Steel land that is laying vacant since 1979. Why they don't want to build the station there I have no idea.

They seem more interested in reclaiming more land from the sea and ruining the views/wildlife and area. At least a nuclear station would be between the two hills of Hunterston (land owned and consent given in 1974) not a nasty coal station.

I just hope everyone in their area complains and the coal station is refused.

What they should have done was either knock down Inverkip power station and rebuild a coal station there as the pylons and infrastructure is already there and so is the chimney, but they would rather build houses there instead.

24 September | 6:59:50

heather cameron says

I would not allow any energy producing plant to be built anywhere on the Ayrshire coast until that unused monstrosity at Inverkip is removed. These people are great at decimating the land with the billions supplied by the taxpayer and then walk away leaving their filth behind them. No doubt this plant will be constructed and like Inverkip will be a no go-er as by the time construction is completed, at 10 times the original cost, coal will be no longer viable or some other entrepreneur (RLB (Robbing Lying B------))will have found a way of extorting the taxpayers money for some other ridiculous energy source. This is Scotland, we can produce more than the required energy for our people from renewable sources the main one being Hydro and do not be fooled by any of these so called experts telling you any different.

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