“Wonder if speaking Polish will be a condition of employment!!”

“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.”

“Still the Telegraph suppresses free speech and fails to carry out proper investigative journalism. Just free ads.”

“NIMBY eh???”

“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.”

“David.M. Grimsby.

The point you make about the drainage of the marshes is correct and as this land has been farmed for many years but was bought by the industrial speculaters in the 1960's and 70's no thought was ever given to the need to provide drainage and pumping stations for the production of food so why should tax payer's money (paid by Yorkshire Forward) be used to subsidise Industry?

Pensioner. Immingham.
I realise your concerns about the coal dust problem as we in Sth Killingholme also suffer from this black menace, just like Immingham we have no say in the matter and in fact our own Parish Council welcome any new industry without any concern for the people that they are supposed to represent.
Regards Nuclear energy i too share the concerns of Gerry because it's allright saying that there has never been an accident or any danger at any of the other plants, well with the risks of explosions at nearby refinery's and other industry this would be too much of a risk as there's allways a first time for everything, remember Chernobyl?”

“"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" - Has anyone considered the environmental impact on the area in question. After all what is the need to drain the marshes if not to develop the land for building . The question of "quangos" is , in my opinion irrelevant when one should be considering the long term intrusion of more industrial development .”

“Whilst google earthing the bund wall I remembered the un-elected town clerks ambition to spend some more of our money on the allotments. The produced report is not accurate suggesting the allotments are well used. Google earth shows a very different picture of little use.....another ITC futile effort in spending our money.

Ah well I suppose the ITC has to scratch around to justify it's quality award.........pah.

Please, oh please, let the new coucillors work for the people and not the inner circle of backslappers in the bunker. And please can one of the new councillors at last find out what we pay nearly £60 000 pounds on one job for. Of course the town clerk does have a full time secretary as well........just what can they possibly find to do all day and every day?

I never did get a job description

In these austere times we must look at Immingham's financial black hole. The civic centre is an anachronism harking back to the Grimsby Rural District Council days.....in it's time it was good for our town.........but times have moved on. The council now uses it mainly as a focus of self importance......they need it to justify their existence! Strip away the civic centre and the town's requirement defaults to a simple parish council, small, cost effective and spending only on essential parish items. The civic centre can never run as a commercial success, indeed it is a constant drain on the town and it's people. True it does have "large room" facilities for functions, but the far superior Academy offers much better accommodation without the overheads. We should embrace the Academy as the shining focal point in our town.......it looks good, it symbolises the future. The Golf club often holds functions with it's bar facility and runs at a profit, costing Immingham nothing!

So demolish the civic centre and avoid the looming refurbishment and need for constant financial injection.

Every other parish in N E Lincs has reasonable charges and sensible staffing levels! Every other parish in N E Lincs has all the facilities that Immingham has except the civic centre and the pond. Immingham is not unique in having allotments, churchyards, cenotaphs, and park areas.......Immingham just chooses to subsidise them for the few by charging the whole town! All other parishes in N E Lincs presumably look into "town" for entertainment and functions........only Immingham seems to want to spend our money perpetuating the civic centre black hole! All other parishes presumable find ways of looking after children....cubs, brownies, cinema, Macdonald's etc., and the villages seem able to cope without power hungry councils and expensive civic staff levels.....N E Lincs provides nearly all the services that other parishes and Immingham uses and requires.......Immingham council just seem to create over the top additional expenses and try to justify having Circa 13 paid staff and countless casuals in that civic centre black hole.”

“The last application to increase coal storage went through with a nod. The operators promised to keep storage heap profiles under control. Historically ABP have failed miserably to control fugitives dusts........how could the council allow expansion base on years of abject failure to control original coal heaps let alone further ones! It beggars belief that ABP could get away with expanding their proven failure!

Does the ITC think a futile effort on funded flower baskets and a lengthsman will make every asthmatic feel happy. The ITC and ABP are a cosy outfit hell bent on damaging Immingham's environment and residents long term health. Get the ITC to wipe the filthy black dust off Homestead play equipment and inhale the sickly aroma of the briquette plants........no of course they won't........some of the councillors even declare an interest in coal so abstain from looking after us.

Every time I play golf at Immingham I marvel at the mountainous coal heaps towering over the very minute dust control bund and think of the ITC and Shona.........pathetic.”

“What the hell has Yorkshire got to do with Lincolnshire? Rosie Winterton is an MP for south Yorkshire and as such has no democratic credibility in Lincolnshire.I certainly don't remember voting for the region of yorkshire and the humber and I certainly wouldn't want Able UK anywhere near Lincolnshire.They will only be looking for a dumping ground and yorkshire forward wouldn't want it on their doorstep.Lincolnshire was better off we where part of the East Midlands region before the considerable wealth of the south bank was squandered by the creation of blunderside.”