Oil Leak 21 – what SNH said……..

“At the end of the day, the statutory authorities – Marine Scotland, SNH, SEPA, Highland Council and RSPB, who were all consultees in this process – they’re the people that are going to say whether or not there’s going to be a potential risk to anything.”   Bob Buskie, Interview with Energy North, 16th December […]

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Oil Leak 20 – The naysers respond

Naysayers, noun: some who opposes something or says no to it. Fair enough. Following on from Oil Leak 18 and our rebuttal of Mr Buskie’s comments in his “big interview” in Energy North, there is more to say. In response to comments left on said oil leak, in case you don’t know who Mr Buskie […]

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Oil Leak 19 – Where are the Scottish Government?

We were going to continue with a rebuttal of Port CEO Bob Buskie’s “big interview”, but in researching that we came across a transcript of questions that were asked in the Scottish Parliament regarding Forth Ports failed attempt to conduct a similar exercise in the Firth of Forth. We’ve been so staggered by what we’ve […]

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Oil Leak 18 “Oh, this is going to be a disaster”

You might have seen today’s Energy North supplement (usually available in the Inverness Courier and Ross-shire Journal and no doubt other publications). Bob Buskie has secured the whole of the front page and two full pages inside to rant about those of us “scaremonegering and making unfair claims of environmental damage”. At least the editors […]

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Oil Leak 17 top ten lies and half truths

We weren’t going to issue this for a while but today’s P&J article sent us over the edge. “Local communities against the application remain in the minority…..”. This is not even a half truth – its an outright lie. Cromarty and District Community Council have spent several weeks canvassing the opinion of communities with a […]

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Oil Leak 16 Mis-information

A slight diversion, maybe that’s what was intended, read on. The Cromarty and District Community Council (CDCC) has been against the STS application from the very start. When the first meeting was held in Cromarty back in January a secret ballot was undertaken of all Cromarty residents who attended. 100% voted against the CFPA application […]

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Oil Leak 15 VOC’s

A little more from our letter received from the MCA in response to our legal challenge, or rather the accompanying document provided by Intertek. On the point of VOC’s emissions – Intertek highlight the issues that people in boats may be in the vicinity of operations and dolphin health may be affected. while these points […]

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Drew Hendry’s thoughts

You might be interested to know that Drew Hendry MP has become active in the matter of STS, writing to both the UK Transport Minister, the Head of the MCA and meeting with various groups including the CFPA and Cromarty Rising. He writes: “In light of all those discussions, I do not accept that the perceived […]

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Oil Leak 14 – media corrections

We’ve had some great media coverage over past couple of days – the BBC, STV, The Herald and the MFR and P&J to name a few. We’d encourage you all to write to these publications (and others) to keep the issue in the media. However its time to straighten out some inaccuracies that are circulating: MFR recycles the assertion […]

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