Opposing Cromarty Firth Port Authority proposals to transfer crude oil where dolphins feed and breed
Yesterdays oil leak was about the board – a little more on that. Where is the accountability? – there are only one set of published minutes from February 2015 on the CFPA website – the link is currently broken but you can read them HERE. What do they tell us? Well for a 3 and a […]
Read More »Last night at the packed Nairn meeting the public were very interested in who actually runs to the Port. It is after all a public asset managed on our behalf. Well, it has a board of 7 – it used to 6 when established by the 1973 Act of Parliament – with half being appointed […]
Read More »Drew Hendry MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey has produced a short video – watch it HERE – Drew breaks the political near silence on this issue – he will take it up with the UK Government and speak to his colleagues in neighbouring constituencies. A good start. Now, can we get every other Highland politician to […]
Read More »Thanks to all who gave up their Friday evening to come to the Nairn meeting last – great to see the meeting so well attended and a great range of questions from the audience. For those who couldn’t make it to the meetings – we’ve posted our presentation below: Meeting Presentation-December-2016 Please get active writing […]
Read More »Last night (1st December) – members of the community councils surrounding the Cromarty Firth met with the Port Authority (the other communities without a border on the firth were excluded). It was explained to them why ship-to-ship oil transfers are so important to the port. CEO, Bob Buskie, told them that it is all tied […]
Read More »2nd December 2016 00:00 An intermission from the workings of the CFPA – this time, how safe is STS? Have a look at this bulletin from the Ship Owners Club who are one of several insurers of oil tankers – “In 2015 the Club was faced with 83 collision cases involving STS operations and in […]
Read More »Oil Leak 2 1st December 00:00 To start with a little bit of spot the difference: The top logo is that of Port of Cromarty Firth. The rebranded name of the Cromarty Firth Port Authority (CFPA), the organisation created by act of parliament to manage and develop the interests of the firth on behalf of […]
Read More »Oil Leak 1: The Port of Cromarty Firth have registered a number of sub-companies. 12 in total. All but two are dormant – they are not mentioned in the annual reports. 11 have been established following the appointment of the current CEO. Next oil leak – 00:00 1st December. Port of Invergordon Ltd – incorporated 13th July […]
Read More »Oil leaks will be used to report factual public interest information about the CFPA, that has been provided to us or uncovered during the course of our research. It will contain wider interest material as well as STS related information. Read the article in todays National HERE. Also run in print edition of Press and […]
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