Just a quick reminder that the Fourstones AD appeal hearing is happening tomorrow at
10am Newbrough Town Hall,
As I said before, there may seem little point in attending if we can’t speak, heckle, applaud or boo but just being there will be a vote against the proposal and will show our support for what remains of planning democracy.
To get some idea of how large this supposed farm-scale plant is it's worth looking at this pompous video by Iona Capital (known associates of JFS Biogas and Prism planning, (it is a multi-million pound business!)) of Keithic Biogas in Perthshire which is a gas to grid rather than a CHP electricity generator but this plant is half the size of what's proposed at Whinney Hill which will have six tanks, eight silage clamps and two massive deafening chp generators working 24 hours a day seven days a week.
(I love the smell of hydrogen sulfide in the morning).
You may also be interested to see what happens when things go wrong, as they frequently do. In the Anaerobic Digestion Strategy and Action Plan Annual Report 2014, “.... the number of serious or potentially serious pollution incidents at AD plants remains a serious concern...Recorded incidents increased from 0 in 2010 to 21 for every 100 permits in 2012.."
These are pictures from an accident that happened last month at Crouchlands Farm near Plaistow that destroyed a kilometre of waterways where digestate had to be scraped out of streams with diggers seriously damaging the whole ecosystem. The stream that leads from the bottom of the field below the Whinney Hill site could be similarly affected leading to the destruction of North Tyne aquatic habitats.
There are even more horiffic pictures on Pore's facebook page https://www.facebook.com/
Hope to see you all tomorrow, I'll be the scruffy guy in black mumbling incoherently, fortunately the other speakers are really good.
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