This is happening all the time in the Highlands… No one is bothered really.. it is what it is
Deliveries of abnormal loads for the Lairg II Wind Farm are under way, with the first loads being delivered yesterday (Monday 20 July).
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So to deliver the new ones and take away the old ones, I’d be guessing 1000 + lorry journeys, how much diesel fumes are they pumping into the atmosphere?
Is no-one thinking of the planet?
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Well, let’s see. At max capacity, we can assume 1.5kg of CO2e per km, unloaded 1.1. Call it 1.3kg/km. With 250 old turbines and the new turbines requiring about double the carrying capacity, assuming a 150km journey, we get:
Distance = (2 x Units) * (2 x Journey) = 500 x 300 = 15 000km
or we can use Dane Estimate 1000 x 300 = 30 000 km
CO2e = Distance * Emissions Factor = 19 500kgs or 19.5 tonnes
or 39 tonnes CO2e if it is 1000 trips.
Now, existing capacity was 500 MW, doubling to one 1 GW. Those turbines were approaching end of life, but refurbishment probably would produce fewer emissions than repowering. So, let’s just consider the incremental increase of 500 MW.
A CCGT will emit about 330kgs per MWh, so a CCGT plant producing that electrical output will emit about 165 tonnes per hour.
So the planet is better off in less than 15 minutes of output…so yeah, someone probably is thinking about the planet.
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A casual observation of mine on my trip to Scotland this year was the large numbers of silver birch planting happening.
I’m not sure if that’s a conscious decision to replace the normal spruce forests that has been all over the UK for the last few decades.
Well I thought I might get a nibble, with a ROFL, but fuck me that was a full blown shark attack bite.
Sarcasm detector obviously switched off today
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Bastards..!
Former Southern Water executives face criminal charges
Story by Patrick Galbraith
Four former Southern Water employees including Matthew Wright, its former chief executive, face criminal charges over claims they tampered with testing.
The Environment Agency said it planned to prosecute them on the charge of conspiracy to defraud over claims that testing at a waste water treatment works was tampered with between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2017.
A spokesman for the agency said: “We can confirm that we are taking criminal proceedings against Southern Water Services Limited and a number of former employees.
“We take our responsibility to protect the environment very seriously and will always pursue and prosecute those alleged to have committed serious offending against the environment. We welcome this important judgment.”
Conspiracy to defraud is a common law offence carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment. The case will now proceed before the Medway Magistrates Court.
Those facing prosecution alongside Mr Wright are Philip Barker, Clive Massey and Mark Gregory.
The Environment Agency said three other men – Mark Butler, Terry Stephens and David James – faced charges over a failure to comply with environmental permits.
The case relates to the alleged abuse of “operator self-monitoring”, a practice introduced for the water industry in 2009 as part of deregulation. Under the rules, water companies are required to take samples and report the results to the Environment Agency.
Under the rules in place at the time, if an inspector or testing team showed up to take a sample but no water was flowing out of the plant – known as a “no-flow event” – the test would not be conducted. By default, the site would be marked as compliant for that test.
The Environment Agency claimed that there was a conspiracy to engineer artificial “no-flow events” at waste water treatment works.
Southern Water will separately face charges of breaching environmental permits. The utility serves almost five million people across the South East of England.
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lets call it a draw…