Cromarty Rising

Earlier this evening the campaign hit another landmark moment with the 38 Degrees petition hitting 100,000 signatures. A figure that will be difficult for the CFPA to ignore. The Highland Council certainly won’t be ignoring it and indeed the leader of the Highland Council has graciously agreed to come out and accept the petition from […]

Following a highly successful visit to Holyrood in January, Cromarty Rising and 38 Degrees have arranged a petition hand-in event to highlight the ever increasing number of people who fundamentally oppose ship to ship transfers of crude oil in the Moray Firth. On 9th March 2017 at 07:30 /08:00 members of the public plan to gather to […]

A letter from Kevin Stewart MSP to the Chris Grayling that has come to our attention – the response is below.

So the headline read in Friday’s Ross-shire Journal – http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Nigg-harbour-bid-news-to-us-says-Invergordon-based-port-authority-01032017.htm – Bob Buskie claims to have been kept in the dark about Global’s revived plans to set up it own port under a Harbour Empowerment Order. Now you know what it feels like Bob. The article notes: Many sizeable Scottish Ports including Aberdeen, Lerwick, Peterhead, Montrose […]

For those of you that missed the P&J on Friday – (see: https://www.energyvoice.com/other-news/133101/port-chiefs-delay-controversial-ship-ship-transfers/) confirmation that there will be no new application submitted before May, post Highland Council elections. This is a change from previous quote that stated the application would be submitted on time in January. Apparently the delay is due to having to spend time reviewing […]

According to last week’s news reports Global who own the Nigg site, are to make a fresh bid for port status – http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Global-make-new-port-bid-for-Nigg-site-27022017.htm No doubt this is in response to the CFPA’s reputed hike in port charges. You may remember that Global attempted to do this before and all hell broke loose. This time the port […]

 Following on from last yesterdays oil leak, here another answer to a question from Mark Ruskell MSP.  This one does a better job of answering the question and would appear to provide a new revaluation that the SG has not been invite to be involved in the review of the STS regs that has apparently […]

Mark Ruskell MSP has asked some further STS question in parliament to which the answers are now available. It could be argued that this one doesn’t actually answer the question! Question S5W-06775: Mark Ruskell, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party, Date Lodged: 01/02/2017 To ask the Scottish Government what representations it has made to […]

We refer to the last BBC report on the Port being required to resubmit their application – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-38748512 Mr Buskie was quoted as saying ” “This detailed package of work is now complete and we will submit our refined application on schedule. We are confident the refined application answers the questions raised and will reassure our […]

Further to last nights oil leak on the upcoming Highland Council purdah – here’s a letter we wrote to the MCA on that very subject. We had a very prompt reply to say that the matter had been raised within the MCA and Department for Transport and the a formal response would be sent shorty, […]