Plans outlined for deep water quayside on South Bank
OPPORTUNITIES being brought to the South Bank through Able UK's proposals for a major new ports complex will be outlined at a special conference next week.
The multi-million-pound plans for a deep water quayside just west of Immingham are central to an event being hosted by Team Humber Marine Alliance at Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton, on Thursday, September 9.
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Artist's impression of the Killingholme area on the South Bank of the Humber, illustrating the river front area.
Delegates can learn more about Able UK's development, as well as understand the potential growth offered by the renewables sector.
Sam Pick, sector champion for Team Humber Marine Alliance, a business organisation that promotes the region's maritime industries, said: "Offshore wind has the potential to provide sustained growth and opportunity for Humber-based businesses over the next 50 years. Numerous exciting partnerships and developments have been announced and regional businesses are already developing into the sector.
"Grimsby is increasingly viewed as an east coast operations and maintenance hub and the Humber marine cluster is seeing real growth in the sector."
Able UK has operated at North Killingholme for nearly a decade, initially having provided the land to handle car imports from Humber Sea Terminal.
But it is the next two phases of activity surrounding the combined Logistics and Business Park and the development of a Marine Energy Park – including the construction of an estimated 1,630m of new quays – to service the growing needs of the renewable energy sector that has really focused minds across both northern Lincolnshire and the wider region.
Peter Stephenson, executive chairman of Able UK Ltd, said: "We have the will, the resource and the passion to make this happen and to put the South Humber Bank at the heart of a new and exciting development.
"We have always taken a long term view and have retained a desire to maximise the impact of our projects in terms of both job and wealth creation.
Equally we are committed to respecting the needs of all stakeholders and to ensure that we can be proud of a truly world-class, world-scale and sustainable development.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for the region and for the UK as a whole and we look forward to working with you."
The company's group development director, Neil Etherington, will present in detail the planned development and answer questions from delegates.
Peter Baker, of Team Humber Marine Alliance, will also give an overview of the Humber ports complex, with Dr Gordon Edge of Renewable UK – the new name for the British Wind Energy Association – looking ahead to Round Three offshore wind farm developments.
The event, which starts at 9.30am, is free for Team Humber Marine Alliance members, and £125 for non-members.
To register, e-mail sam.pick@square5.co.uk
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by walt.a.meattie, grim land of dreams
Monday, September 06 2010, 8:28AM
“Jim --
i'm not arguing the pros & cons of wind turbines per se.
i merely suggest that this proposal is going to cost us locals a lot more than the benefits to US
i'd go further & suggest that the wind turbines illustrated are a flight of fancy which is encroaching on my own raison d'être -- i'm the one who does the dreaming, if you don't mind and my nightmare is the one that already afflicts north-east lincs more than the locals, especially the local council, realize.
the muck from industry and port installations has to fall on the ground inches (=cm+ in new money) thick before anybody notices. We get the muck; the outners get the profit.
i'm pretty sure that the regina locals wouldn't want viable tar sand deposits discovered just to the windward and uphill of the city, however much exxon, mobil and bp could make out of it!
think on, chaps... not just on the prairie!
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p.s. cuddernt elp noticing the illustration accompanying a tv news item this morning describing the extension of life of german nuclear power stations shewed a flurry of wind turbines atop the nuclear installations :-)”
by Jim, Regina
Sunday, September 05 2010, 7:39PM
“Walt! Wind farms produce little that is use full. They never get close to producing there rated output. What they do produce is a very poor quality electricity. Besause of this poor quality they can only fed to what is known as a stiff bus. That is a line that is much larger in capacity, supplied by conventional alternators rotating at a fixed speed.
The only thing a wind farm is good for is making money(your tax money) for the entrepreneurs that built it.”
by walt.a.meattie, grimland, until i get out...
Sunday, September 05 2010, 11:41AM
“good-day chaps --
i diddernt fantasize, unfortunately, that 'an error has occurred'... and not merely here!
at least jo, a windfarm isn't going to churn out thousands of tons of dust and chemical filth like the rest of massive council-encouraged activity on the humber bank that provides minimal employment for local people and pollutes our atmosphere unabated by that council..
yet another 'massive' local employment scheme for the ne£inks council bankers to claim as their own!
just be aware that i do not dream of hull university and others investigating the storage of sequestered carbon dioxide and nuclear waste in the caverns under north-east lincolnshire and the adjacent offshore area.
and when le£inks council sells its soul yet again to the devil of minimal employment to gain even more dosh to pour into bottomless council coffers, think on about the consequences of a 'leak' that'll make bhopal+flixboro'+buncefield look and smell like the tawdry council firework display in their 'pleasure dome' of discontent at cleethorpes.
think on. and wonder how you elected them.”
by Neil, Clee 2
Thursday, September 02 2010, 6:25PM
“"Hubs? Clusters?",Jo. You know what that means. It is just a group of windmills. So it is not very windy around here. That is why they are spread all over the country,because sometimes it is not very windy in certain areas.”
by Neil, Clee 2
Thursday, September 02 2010, 5:48PM
“Let us try subsidies on nuclear power,Jo.Where did it get us? Not very far,except we now have a large legacy of nuclear waste(which lasts around 10,000 years) to deal with. Sure. We also got a few atomic bombs.....”