Shell To Sea newsletter - 24/01/2008
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Sunday February 03, 2008 13:33
by JM
Rossport
VILLAGERS WIN OUT OVER GAS STATION
National Grid won't be allowed to build a gas plant in Corse [Gloucestershire]. Villagers who have been campaigning against the building of a Pressure Reduction Installation in Corse are over the moon after a planning inspector refused permission for it.
The station would have been a vital part of a new 122-mile pipeline being built between Swansea and Tirley.
... "The Inspectors' report makes it very clear that National Grid did not do a proper job of looking for alternative sites, ignoring 99 per cent of the potential area.
"They also concluded that the development would be particularly intrusive on this site and damaging to the character and appearance of this rural area.
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The site for the terminal in Bellanaboy was rejected by a Planning Inspector who was overruled.
It's not over yet.
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