5,000 jobs on the horizon
A SCHEME that could lead to 5,000 new jobs in the area has moved a step closer to becoming a reality.
The Yorkshire Forward development agency has committed up to £3.76-million to fund drainage improvements on the Killingholme Marshes area of the South Humber Gateway project.
And, in a double boost for the proposed development, plans to transform the A160 have been rubber-stamped at regional level.
The South Humber Gateway aims to develop land from the Humber Bridge towards Immingham.
This would bring the potential for major investment in the renewable energy industry to the region, while port firm Able UK is planning to invest £100-million on developing a deep water port on the Humber. The draining of the marshes will be key to the schemes going ahead.
See today's Grimsby Telegraph for more details.
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by True Brit, gy
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 4:42PM
“Wonder if speaking Polish will be a condition of employment!!”
by Cheerful Charlie, Grimsby
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 4:11PM
“I too share the views of both Pensioner and Gerry. But whatever we do to get power will bring risks of some kind. We can't legislate risk down to nothing can we?
My main worry about this obvious piece of spin is that the 5000 jobs are a figment of someone's imagination designed to impress us. Those jobs will include the one-off constructions and after that the new jobs will be lucky to number in the hundreds and certainly not the thousands it says here. It really is a blatant example of using taxpayers' money for electioneering.”
by Anarchist, In the UK
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 4:09PM
“Still the Telegraph suppresses free speech and fails to carry out proper investigative journalism. Just free ads.”
by Realistic, GY
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 3:59PM
“NIMBY eh???”
by Gerry, Cleethorpes
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 3:23PM
“EDF are set to run UK nuclear power plants. Their record for unauthorised discharges in France is woeful. Sellafield is known to have contaminated the Irish Sea to such an extent the Irish and Manx governments have lobbied against it for years. Should a nuclear power station be built at Killingholme it will polute the Humber, contaminate the beach at Cleethorpes and contaminate and irradiate the whole of the coastline down to north Norfolk. The fishmen of the Wash will be out of business too. With that there is unlikely to be much of food processing being done in Grimsby once it is tarred with the same brush. Get real all those who think nuclear is the way forward. Not for North East Lincolnshire it isn't.”