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8:30am Friday 19th March 2010 in
CONCERNS have been raised that a new £600million natural gas power station could cause pollution in Castle Point.
The Gateway Energy Centre, a 900-megawatt natural gas-fired power station, is planned for previously developed land on the north bank of the River Thames at Coryton, near Corringham.
The site is less than a mile away from the existing gas fired power station on the border of the two local authority areas.
Julian Ware-Lane, prospective Labour MP for Castle Point, said: “Throughout the year, the prevailing winds are from the west 70 per cent of the time – this means any airborne pollution will, for that 70 per cent of any normal year, be carried into Castle Point.
“Thurrock will benefit from the development; Castle Point could get the pollution.”
The power station would meet all the energy demands of the new superport being created, as well as powering a million homes across Basildon and Thurrock.
InterGen, the company behind the power station, must gain Government approval for the scheme.
Mr Ware-Lane is keen Castle Point Council is consulted on the plans.
He said: “I am aware that in the previous decade we had a refinery closed in this area, but that is no reason to accept new unwanted sources of pollution without putting up some comment.”
A meeting between InterGen, the company behind the proposals, and Castle Point Council is due to take place next month Bosses at InterGen say the power station would be one of the most efficient and environmentally advanced in the UK and promise it will bring benefits to the wider area, not just Thurrock.
Spokeswoman Melissa McKerrow said: “InterGen recognises that naturally, the community may have concerns about emissions from the proposed Gateway Energy Centre.
“The state-of-the-art technology used in constructing the plant will result in minimal emissions and preserve local air quality. Once the plant is operational, emissions from the stacks will be continuously monitored by specialised emissions monitoring equipment and reported to the Environment Agency on a regular basis.
“The proposed Gateway Energy Centre will bring benefits, not just to Thurrock, but to the entire region, with up to 600 jobs created during construction and 60 long-term direct and indirect jobs once the plant is operational.”
Comments(10)
evilc
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12:03pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Maya Pinnion
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2:52pm Fri 19 Mar 10
evilc wrote:"thank God at last the Conservative Party have laid their cards on the table and stated that they will allow PRIVATE ENTERPRISE to build 1 power station per month including Nuclear if necessary which will fend off a total disaster with pending civil unrest.
To all the concerned anoraks worried about Nuclear power plants etc despite the fact most Nuclear plants in France are nearer to this area than Wales or Scotland.
And the fact that this rotten Government have dragged their feet over a looming power crisis for this country over the past 12 years because many of their supporters are anti anything as this twit of a prospective MP is thank God at last the Conservative Party have laid their cards on the table and stated that they will allow PRIVATE ENTERPRISE to build 1 power station per month including Nuclear if necessary which will fend off a total disaster with pending civil unrest.
We need to modernise and go forward not listen to all the Left wing anoraks and supporters of the New labour anorak club.
Labour are killing us!!
Bring back Maggie 'The Union avenger'
upset
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5:10pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Maya Pinnion wrote:If you meant bring back Maggies principles then I say hear hear to EvilC.
evilc wrote:"thank God at last the Conservative Party have laid their cards on the table and stated that they will allow PRIVATE ENTERPRISE to build 1 power station per month including Nuclear if necessary which will fend off a total disaster with pending civil unrest.
To all the concerned anoraks worried about Nuclear power plants etc despite the fact most Nuclear plants in France are nearer to this area than Wales or Scotland.
And the fact that this rotten Government have dragged their feet over a looming power crisis for this country over the past 12 years because many of their supporters are anti anything as this twit of a prospective MP is thank God at last the Conservative Party have laid their cards on the table and stated that they will allow PRIVATE ENTERPRISE to build 1 power station per month including Nuclear if necessary which will fend off a total disaster with pending civil unrest.
We need to modernise and go forward not listen to all the Left wing anoraks and supporters of the New labour anorak club.
Labour are killing us!!
Bring back Maggie 'The Union avenger'
We need to modernise and go forward not listen to all the Left wing anoraks and supporters of the New labour anorak club.
Labour are killing us!!
Bring back Maggie 'The Union avenger'"
A power station a month? including nuclear? I'm
sure that will be very safe.
as for Maggie, have you seen her lately?
Get help EvilC
Buffalo Bill
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7:25pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Miss D Meaner
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9:11pm Fri 19 Mar 10
evilc wrote:Good old Maggie, eh? The Iron Lady. More like a blasted tin-pot dictator - a rabid one, at that! Private Enterprise? Don't make me laugh...the list of companies that your precious fascists sold-off to all and sundry, is nothing short of criminal. We have been well and truly paying for Thatcher's demented dictat for years and will be, forever more. Consider this; all the profits that the State-owned companies made (huge profits, bar BL) went into the Treasury, NOT, foreign share-holders Swiss Bank accounts, as they have done since that creature sold it all for pennies.
To all the concerned anoraks worried about Nuclear power plants etc despite the fact most Nuclear plants in France are nearer to this area than Wales or Scotland. And the fact that this rotten Government have dragged their feet over a looming power crisis for this country over the past 12 years because many of their supporters are anti anything as this twit of a prospective MP is thank God at last the Conservative Party have laid their cards on the table and stated that they will allow PRIVATE ENTERPRISE to build 1 power station per month including Nuclear if necessary which will fend off a total disaster with pending civil unrest. We need to modernise and go forward not listen to all the Left wing anoraks and supporters of the New labour anorak club. Labour are killing us!! Bring back Maggie 'The Union avenger'
Buffalo Bill
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8:02am Sat 20 Mar 10
Miss D Meaner wrote:Well said!!!!
evilc wrote:Good old Maggie, eh? The Iron Lady. More like a blasted tin-pot dictator - a rabid one, at that! Private Enterprise? Don't make me laugh...the list of companies that your precious fascists sold-off to all and sundry, is nothing short of criminal. We have been well and truly paying for Thatcher's demented dictat for years and will be, forever more. Consider this; all the profits that the State-owned companies made (huge profits, bar BL) went into the Treasury, NOT, foreign share-holders Swiss Bank accounts, as they have done since that creature sold it all for pennies.
To all the concerned anoraks worried about Nuclear power plants etc despite the fact most Nuclear plants in France are nearer to this area than Wales or Scotland. And the fact that this rotten Government have dragged their feet over a looming power crisis for this country over the past 12 years because many of their supporters are anti anything as this twit of a prospective MP is thank God at last the Conservative Party have laid their cards on the table and stated that they will allow PRIVATE ENTERPRISE to build 1 power station per month including Nuclear if necessary which will fend off a total disaster with pending civil unrest. We need to modernise and go forward not listen to all the Left wing anoraks and supporters of the New labour anorak club. Labour are killing us!! Bring back Maggie 'The Union avenger'
evilc
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8:16am Sat 20 Mar 10
Buffalo Bill
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11:31am Sat 20 Mar 10
upset
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10:00am Mon 22 Mar 10
evilc wrote:I can just imagine you and the other Maggie knocks, either ex coal miners, or pole tax decenter s.
The above anti comments are similar to those made by the former communist party members before the fall of the iron curtain, or the fall of the communist Arthur Scargill.
If we remain with the Bring back the Union agitators brigade then we will become a third world country.
We need new revolutionary thinking to encourage private enterprise in a free economy, that will either work free of Government subsidies or fail.
We do not want to produce coal that is more expensive to produce than it is worth.
Private enterprise is the only way forward at this point in History.
Everyone given the chance to improve their lot NOT JUST THE PARTY MEMBERS.
Profits made will then go in taxes and feed the ever growing Public employees who do not generate wealth, it will go on ever increasing benefits that again only take, take, take eventually we will have a stagnant country with a small minority paying for a communist type society.
That is the policy of the 1940's and behind the Iron curtain THAT FAILED!!
Do you want that?
Its time for a change Labour have had 12 years and we are bankrupt.
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WHY says...
9:52am Fri 19 Mar 10
Cheaper Electriclty?
Any worse emissions than the old Power Station ? ask the questions it may actually reduce pollution in Castle Point.
How about if we ask for a connecting road from Canvey to the roundabout by the Mobile Club as I understand it the biggest obsticle of this 3rd route off the Island is Thurock Council objecting to it.
Do a Deal and sort out on of Castle Points biggest issues and make Canvey a safer place to live.