Posts by Angus Nicolson

Nipples and teen lesbians sexy even when ironic, ASA rules

Playmobil?

Surely....

Playmobil?

Vote Lib Dem, doom humanity to extinction

Blindly pro-nuclear

Masterful analysis that fails to explain the slight logical problem that none of those countries who *might* just try to nuke us have weapons delivery systems that can make this happen.

Never mind, Trident will defend us against the much more probable dirty bomb delivered by hand, won't it???

London cops trial 'leccy patrol cars

Hydrogen powered post delivery vans

Electric Police cars are just so yesterday.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/environment/display.var.2503967.0.Hydrogenfuelled_post_van_bid.php

Scottish Government scuppers Lewis wind farm plan

@I am that local opposition

>Not one of the many people on the island on fixed incomes would have found a reduction in their fuel bill as a result of this scheme.

Ofgem prevent the turbine operators providing subsidised power 'to avoid distortion of the market'. BUT, there is a way to provide cheaper power without falling foul of Ofgem.

>Not one local person would be guaranteed employment beyond the construction phase of this scheme.

Oh f! We're not all subsidy junkies, or opposed to migrant workers from Glasgow, England or Eastern Europe. Some of us like to work for a living, and are not expecting money dropped into our laps.

>No guarantees were ever made regarding the cleanup of the site at the end of the life of the scheme.

Rubbish. Condition 1 (a) demanded a restoration bond be put in place before in works started. All the conditions are at http://angusnicolson.blogspot.com/LWPConditions.pdf

@Anon Coward

Same Angus Nicolson. Care to declare your own interests, such as membership of any group opposing the turbines?

Are you still persisting in making the ludicrous claim that there was 'no community benefit'? As two of the estates are actually owned by the community, are you honestly trying to say that none of that would reach the public?

As for there being no cable - Ofgem does not allow speculative cable building. With the advantage of a rational thought process, the developers planned to build a cable after permission was granted. Something of a normal state of affairs for most developments.

Not screwed over

The developers would have paid £6m per annum for 25-30 years to the affected communities, to be used to regenerate the islands.

The direct and indirect benefits would have been huge.

As for the "open mine proposal" it never happened, and no-one was "shipped in".

An enormous missed opportunity.