According to latest research, birds don’t need to be covered in oil to be harmed by oil spills and leaks: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/even-tiny-oil-spill-spells-bad-news-birds This is an emerging are of research but hardly surprising that if a bird ingests oil that there will be a detrimental effect – somehow this has hitherto gone unrecorded, instead, the focus being […]

What’s the difference between Fergus Ewing, Rossana Cunningham and Douglas Ross? Moray MP Douglas Ross voted against the integration of environmental legislation and the protection of sentient animals into U.K. Law post Brexit last week. While MSPs didn’t do anything to use existing powers under the European Protected Species legislation in their control to prevent any threat […]

Yes, hot from this evening’s annual meeting of the Port of Cromarty Firth – the Port stated that they are a Trust working for the good of all stakeholders and emphasised their commitment to sustainability before proceeding to state that they are continuing with their application to undertake STS at sea of the Cromarty Sutors […]

In case you don’t know – the Port of Cromarty Firth Annual meeting is this Thursday 23rd November at the Ross County stadium, Dingwall 6pm. As usual, ticket only – email: joanne@cfpa.co.uk. Why would you want to go? Well, despite October coming and coming with no new application, it seems the latest line is, “sometime […]

Following up on the last oil leak – this is from the Firth of Forth application The decision against this specific proposal for ship-to-ship transfers of oil in the Firth of Forth will be welcomed by all those who have campaigned against the proposal Richard Lochhead Environment Secretary   Charles Hammond, group chief executive of […]

From the Deepwater Horizon Report: “ The Commission also looked at the effectiveness of the response to the spill. There were remarkable instances of dedication and heroism by individuals involved in the rescue and cleanup. Much was done well—and thanks to a combination of good luck and hard work, the worst-case scenarios did not all […]

http://www.cromartyrising.com/wp-admin/options-general.phpAnother from the Deepwater Horizon Report “The well blew out because a number of separate risk factors, oversights, and outright mistakes combined to overwhelm the safeguards meant to prevent just such an event from happening. But most of the mistakes and oversights at Macondo can be traced back to a single overarching failure—a failure of […]

Cromarty Rising found an amazing up-take of people to sign the letter below to Scotland’s First Minister at a the Black Isle Gathering this weekend. The Cromarty Firth Port Authority are a Scottish trust port under the Scottish Government control, ship-to-ship transfers are planned where bottlenose dolphins rear their young and the FM could decline […]

So, the Scottish Government can ban fracking in the face of overwhelming public opposition: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41484153 To quote the BBC: Mr Wheelhouse said the consultation came back with “overwhelming” opposition to fracking, with 99% of the 60,000 respondents supporting a ban. He said this showed that “there is no social licence for unconventional oil and gas to […]

Another from the Deepwater Horizon Report: “But that complacency affected government as well as industry. The Commission has documented the weaknesses and the inadequacies of the federal regulation and oversight, and made important recommendations for changes in legal authority, regulations, investments in expertise, and management.”