MP Martin Vickers bids to resurrect Immingham biomass plant scheme

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Thursday, November 08, 2012
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Grimsby Telegraph

CLEETHORPES MP Martin Vickers has secured a meeting with the Government to discuss the recent scrapping of a biomass plant at Immingham.

Mr Vickers and Brigg and Goole MP Andrew Percy will meet Energy Minister John Hayes in the next few weeks.

It comes after Drax Power and Siemens Project Ventures announced they were abandoning plans for a £600-million biomass-fuelled power plant due to a lack of Government support.

The 290MW project would have created 150 permanent jobs while boosting local construction and maintenance sectors.

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Mr Vickers said: “I asked for a meeting with the Energy Minister and he’s agreed to meet me and Andrew Percy to discuss how the decision has impacted on the local economy.

“Basically, we’ll be trying to find out if there’s any hope of resurrecting the scheme.”

The biomass plant was destined for land just outside Port of Immingham’s western entrance. The Heron Renewable Energy Plant would have taken feedstock direct from vessels discharging at Humber International Terminal.

A similar plan for Selby was scrapped in February, while a Hull proposal was also ruled out in 2009.

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  • Profile image for nukedragga

    by nukedragga

    Tuesday, November 13 2012, 2:08PM

    “Awww how many votes do each of yourselves have? Do you squabble over which name presses the red arrow button.

    Do you pat yourself on the back when you write to each other.

    No qualification, no cred, no sense or reason in the over used charade of many names. Boring bleep, bleep, bleep, everyone ignores, bleep, bleep.

    Oh and bleep ;-)
    .”

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    by Seahunter_1

    Tuesday, November 13 2012, 1:41PM

    “Nukedragga your posts prove one thing and one thing only. You are a gross ignoramus (that is you're 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus).

    Myself and the rest of the sane members here in this little community know you set low personal standards and then consistently fail to achieve them.

    Come on Fish Brain……………….. where's my 13 red ticks then. :o)”

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    by nukedragga

    Monday, November 12 2012, 9:06PM

    “One keyboard, one Google, three topics, many names, writing to himself, seen the format time and time again.

    No cred', no qual', no status, boring bragging – beware, ignore, bleep, bleep, bleep.”

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    by para_handy

    Monday, November 12 2012, 8:32PM

    “Oops. I missed out the line:

    Biomass organic material is incinerated during the fuel burn, but transport and pelletization will release fine dusts and any fungal spores into the atmosphere and be widespread wind-borne.

    Smokebelch, you surprise me......was not your knowledge gleaned from any information source available to you?

    In over a quarter of a century in the power industry, my qualification(s) were only the start of a continuous amassing of knowledge from "anywhere." The field of Electrical Engineering has transformed (no pun intended) exponentially, way beyond the teachings of yesteryear! Surely you are not a Luddite?

    I deeply wish there were millions of "armchair experts," perhaps then, enough of our taxpayers and energy consumers would recognise the magnitude of the Renewable Energy scam!”

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    by para_handy

    Monday, November 12 2012, 8:15PM

    “Bthe_kid............. you are not me LOL:


    We used to have a school of little fishes collectively known as fishbrain........perhaps they have resurfaced under a different guise.....albeit still exhibiting Fregoli symptoms.

    The Fregoli delusion, or the delusion of doubles, is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. The syndrome may be related to a brain lesion and is often of a paranoid nature with the delusional person believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise.

    Biomass is a low density fuel and the only reason it is being used is because of the lucrative subsidies that is showered upon it. In the light of the recent Chalara fraxinea scare, what other UK alian organisms, disease and spores are coming in to the UK?”

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    by nukedragga

    Monday, November 12 2012, 5:05PM

    “It's a good job that we don't rely on the ignored armchair web expert who debates with himself, for anything. It's to be hoped he never gets his hands on a real screwdriver.”

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    by Brutto

    Monday, November 12 2012, 4:28PM

    “Good grief ! Has Mr Vickers gone off his rocker ? Does he not realise the health implications which result from Biomass ? Apparently not. Not only is wood burning biomass energy worse than fossil fuel for CO2 emissions, but it also usually emits higher rates of conventional pollutants, i.e. Particulates, Nitrogen Oxides and volatile organic compounds (VOC's) than fossil fuels. What a silly man. Has he no concern for those with respiratory problems ?”

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    by Bthe_kid

    Sunday, November 11 2012, 6:45PM

    “jasbee,

    You have 13 red ticks because knuckledragger aka piranha, barracuda etc. etc., believes you are me.

    This is his childish way of signalling that he has identified one of my posts. Of course you know that I'm not you, I don't have to convince you of that. However, to put the record straight there is another contributor on this thread who knuckelgragger I guess also thinks is me. It isn't, but you'll just have to take my word for that.

    P.S. Cue the 13 reds”

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    by Jasbee

    Sunday, November 11 2012, 6:12PM

    “Wow! all my comments have exactly 13 red ticks. Fairly consistent bunch of dreamers. For dreamers they are. There has been no technology invented that will reduce the production of CO2 wind for instances increases it.”

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    by Jasbee

    Friday, November 09 2012, 10:03PM

    “Don't know about the Grimsby Telegraph readers Give them common sense and they give you red ticks.Will you remember that when you find out what a washout biomass is. The best idea with all lhis so called greenhouse gas reducers is to drop the lot. They don't begin to save the earth . The only think certain is higher Electricity bills, and you are being conned.. How much red is there here.”

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