Formal consultation ahead on Scawby power station plans for 550 jobs
Centrica Energy is powering ahead with plans for a major development at Scawby Brook, which is earmarked to provide 50 permanent jobs and employment for a further 500 during construction.
It wants to build and operate a new biomass-fuelled electricity generating power station on part of the old Brigg sugar factory site.
-
An illustration of what the proposed power station will look like
The firm held an initial consultation exercise in the spring to gauge reaction from North Lincolnshire people.
That seems to have been positive, and now Centrica has announced a formal consultation process, beginning on September 21.
Business Cards From Only £10.95 Delivered www.myprint-247.co.uk
View detailsOur heavyweight cards have FREE UV silk coating, FREE next day delivery & VAT included. Choose from 1000's of pre-designed templates or upload your own artwork. Orders dispatched within 24hrs.
Terms: Visit our site for more products: Business Cards, Compliment Slips, Letterheads, Leaflets, Postcards, Posters & much more. All items are free next day delivery. www.myprint-247.co.uk
Contact: 01858 468192
Valid until: Sunday, May 26 2013
During November or December it will then submit an application as part of the planning process.
Public exhibitions will be held at Ancholme Leisure Centre, Scawby Brook, on Friday, October 5, from 3pm to 9pm, and at the Angel Suite in Brigg town centre on Saturday, October 6, from 10am to 4pm.
Rail is the chosen method for bringing biomass wood pellets from abroad into the plant - probably shipped in through the port of Immingham.
A "key component" of the proposal is a new rail reception facility with biomass unloading facilities.
The site earmarked for the Centrica Glanford Brigg Biomass Power Station is close to the New River Ancholme.
Comments
by Hazzers
Saturday, September 15 2012, 9:02AM
“What ever is settled for, we must make sure we have enough electricity generating to power the urban heart and administrative centre of North Lincolnshire, preferablely in these backwater villages, out of the site of Scunthorpe.”
by MartinJDwyer
Friday, September 14 2012, 12:47PM
“@englander61
wind farms aren't ugly .. and they provide plenty of jobs and work for contractors
where exactly do you suppose those fuel pellets come from?
Wind farms yield 2W (average) of electricty per square metre and the surrounding land can still be used to grow food
Growing 'stuff' to burn yields, at very best, 1W per square metre of thermal energy, or about 0.3W per m x m after conversion to electricity at 30% efficiency, and the land has to be continually, aggressively and industrially farmed and can be used for no other purpose. I expect all you NIMBYs will flush with contentment at the sight of all that ernest farming activity?
If we're going to grow 'stuff' to burn then we should ditch this bad technology and develop algae cultivation instead - you can use sea water, grow the stuff in trays on any type of land thus leaving farming grade land for its proper use and it's already able to gather solar energy at 10W per m x m, that's 10 times more efficient. The product can be configured to produce synthetic liquid fuels too eg diesel, petrol or kerosene for air transport. Since the algae would be extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, this would be true zero-carbon sustainable technology.”
by Hazzers
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 5:06PM
“I love windfarms, they are aesthetically pleasing, we should certainly have more.”
by englander61
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 4:47PM
“better than the ugly wind farms , providing 50 permanent jobs , and work for contractors , pity the could not have improved river ancholme and used it to transport fuel pellets .”