Cromarty Rising

This week’s North Star headline  “Dolphins Face Lethal Injection” – this follows up on the CFPA oil spill response plan which contains details of how, in the event of dolphins being stranded and being unable to be refloated, that they will face euthanasia  – it’s a well written article, go buy the paper and read […]

For those of you who don’t get the Ross-shire – a letter published this week from a concerned Cromarty resident highlighting the veracity (or lack thereof) of the Port’s statement on the former use of Nigg terminal….. we’ll expand on that tomorrow!

We’ll finish off with this: The Firth’s Local Value? We don’t dispute this figure of £275 million, but let be clear, this isn’t solely due to the CFPA all by themselves – while they do undoubtedly bring wealth to the area, we would love to see this “independent assessment of the economic value to the […]

As a final thought we thought we’d share the port’s graphic, or part of it, that show’s how important the environment is to them – Wintering birds? They seem to have forgotten the birds that are here year round as they only highlight the importance of wintering birds – there are of course the terns […]

Nearly finished with the series…..yes, we actually agree on something, the Cromarty Firth is an exceptional environment. “The Port works tirelessly with local organisations to maintain clean water and a health environment for people and wildlife”. We would really like the Port to substantiate that and explain exactly how they work tirelessly to do so? […]

The council elections – May 4th – remember them? Well, it appears that we are having our very own Black Isle hustings this Tuesday 25th April in Fortrose Community Theatre (7.30pm – 9pm). A great chance for you to find out who you are voting for and importantly what they think about STS! Cromarty Rising […]

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but the whole thing about STS was to introduce a new revenue stream to make up for the loss of revenue from transferring oil at Nigg. But here are the CFPA, supposedly slashing prices. We suspect companies such as Global might not see it way as last we heard they […]

The postponed Holyrood debate on ship to ship oil transfers has now been schedule for May 2nd at 5pm. We have secured a number of tickets and will look into organising a bus for a day out in Edinburgh. More to follow on social media. It looks like the Scottish Government is coming round to seeing […]

“Keep in touch with local people is vital. says port chief”????? For real? Or may be the editor missed out the bit in bracket – (Unless it’s anything to do with STS). “We have been managing the whole of the Cromarty Firth for the benefit of everyone who wants to do business here or visit […]

Stakeholders? Anyone attending the CFPA’s annual public meeting back in November or indeed reading any of their annual reports will remember what a big thing they may of “the environment” being a stakeholder – fast forward to their newspaper advertising supplement and it would appear to have disappeared completely.  Does that imply it doesn’t matter any […]