derick
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Alas Peat is 80-90% water. Still a lot of water in air dried peats. Trust a Yell man on this subject. Suppose you could use the windmills to dry it though!
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There's a first! I (almost) agree with Ugl. A referendum would have settled the issue and think would indeed have shown that the majority of folk are in favour of the windfarm, 70:30 locally as nationally. A public enquiry would I suspect also have found in favour, but would have wasted years and achieved little other than to enrich lawyers as usual.
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eh - the article says 300 people from across Scotland demonstrated. sounds like a mass movement then. er...er...er I was at the antiwar demonstrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 2003. In Glasgow the front of the demonstration was at the SECC and the back of it still hadn't left the Green. In Edinburgh the people filled the whole width of Princes Street - both carriageways and the pavements and the whole length of the street at least twice. THAT is real anger about an issue. No the faux outrage of a few over twartree windmills.
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ah, but did dey growe better da next year? I'm guessing yes wi aa dat lovely extra organics ida grund. actually curious about the answer to that?
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If I recall half of Shetland was covered in a spray of oil when the Braer piled up. Guess what - the World Didn't End.
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Never the less, AT is right that Billy ran and lost. Who came third in the constituency is irrelevant. Secondly, Tavish has (and it's not often I say much good about Mr Scott) quite correctly, given the divisions in the community he represents) been publicly neutral on the windfarm. Anyway, that is how the additional member electoral system that Labour and the Liberals devised works. Any of the 7 additional members for the Highlands and Islands Region (3 SNP, 2 Labour, 2 Tory) could vote Tavish down, even if he did take a position on the issue.
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As far as I know all transformers, and oil tanks including domestic heating oil should have a bund sufficient to contain the contents if they leak
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No, right enough probably no Business Plan. I expect SSE is likely going to spend £556,000,000 on the basis of a scribble on the back of a beermat NOT!!
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The Shetland Crimes says more powerful. The 123 was based on 132m tall 3.6mw turbines, so the net effect of all the amendments and objections is fewer, bigger machines. http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2012/04/05/turbine-upgrade-may-be-way-forward-for-viking
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Nevertheless the fact is it originated in Shetland, as much as with SSE larger shareholding = larger investment =larger risk. I am fairly sure that there would have been a lot more shouting if the CT had a majority shareholding! I see. SIC started looking at windfarms in, what, early 2000s? Viking Energy/SSE memorandum of agreement was signed in 2005 The SNP was elected to (minority) government in 2007. The 100% equivalent, far from being pie in the sky, perfectly achievable target, was set in May 2011 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/05/18093247 I can only assume du thinks Mr S influenced VE via some sort of TARDIS device?? As I said, the minister is not in a position to refuse (or approve) valid planning applications on a political whim. As is always the case. Mechanical things break. shock horror. lay 2 cables.
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Dratsy 'It is a simple fact that global warming is just a scam..." Says Dratsy. entitled ta the view of course, although wrong. meanwhile, all scientific organizations the world over disagree.
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So you are supporting the spending of Shetlands money to support Salmond's scoty dream for no other reason than it get the backs up of the nimby's or is it just you cant bring yourself to disagree with Salmond. whatever way it is sad indeed Given all the other nonsense Shetland has spent it's money on, windmills are one of the better ideas. Although Ghostriders point about local authorities being off the scale of incompetence is taken. What does Salmond have to do with Viking Energy? answer - absolutely nothing. Is developing renewable energy in a peak oil environment a good idea? absolutely If we recall VE originated in Shetland, by Shetland and for Shetland.
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a nihilistic point of view. Yes, windmills are trivial compared to China. Getting carbon capture to work (if it can be made to work) is numerous times more important. Then again windfarms annoy the hell out of NIMBYS and are worth doing for that reason alone. There's a couple of windfarms in planning and preplanning coming on either side of my hovel. Usual objectors shouting their heads about it. To whom I am grateful as thanks to their leaflet I know about this, and can write letters of support.
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By far and away the best way to protect birds is to shoot a cat a day Or you could give up the car and demolish your house. Given the latter 2 options are impractical, the mog is in the firing line. Percentage causes of anthropogenic bird death Buildings 58.2% power lines 13.7% cats 10.6% wind turbines <0.01% http://studentaffairs.case.edu/farm/doc/birdmortality.pdf
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No, the worst case scenario is runaway warming as happened in the Permian-Emian Thermal Maximum, with the end of industrial civilization and a mass extinction. i.e. not just 'slightly better weather'
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Well, we'll see about that in 2014 The Minister will have made the decision, or rather have rubber stamped the recommendation his civil servants will have put to him, on the basis of planning law, not politics. Otherwise he could have taken the easy option and recommended a public enquiry (waste of money on lawyers that would have been!). If he had ignored his civil servants advice Viking Energy would have quite correctly been straight off for judicial review. There are Unionists who are in favour of the windfarm - Gordon Harmer for one. And there are nationalists who are against it. It's a strange facet of human nature that when someone proposes anything, others immediately find a need to oppose it and think up screeds of excuses why. Weird but that's human nature.
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I did actually suggest in my submission on Viking Energy that some of the income should be put towards reforesting one of the central mainland valleys. After first employing a sniper to take out the woolly gods first. Still think that's a good idea. No subsidy should go to sheep. not one penny. not forgiven the one that bulted me in the face when I was peerie. Not forgiven the whole cursed species in fact.
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Good! I think Scatsta may well have killed off Beawfield... ( and the Whimbrel ).. Wouldn't surprise me given the proximity. Would be very disappointing though, and ironic that an airport serving a fossil fuel plant would prevent a renewable energy project. Yell had 1200 inhabitants when I was growing up - what is it now? under 800? You can't eat scenery (although you can eat whimbrels). oops.
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Sorry but I have to disagree with that. Where are Shetland's forests? Sheep have utterly changed (and damaged) the ecology, pretty much for good. And indeed are the primary cause of blanket peat. Twartree bits o windmills will have very little effect in comparision, and not for very long.
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"we consider release of up to 50Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage as highly possible for abrupt release at any time". http://www.skepticalscience.com/arctic-methane-outgassing-e-siberian-shelf-part2.html
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I second that. Sheep have no redeeming features whatsoever except they're edible. And if you want the hills to be natural, you need a 5,500 year trip back in the TARDIS. Of all the tosh talked about VE the 'unspoiled' landscape tosh is the worst tosh. Shetland's landscape is ecologically devastated. Which brings wis back ta da B**erd sheep
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Good!
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chemotherapy patients & "fit for work" tests
derick replied to MJ's topic in National & International News
ah, but he haes an aaful owld pictir in his laft. Osborne is a bit fresh faced also. As opposed ta da Fiberals, wha ir joost two faced.