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The Big Welsh Gas Project: June 2008
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Thursday, June 26, 2008. Gordon Brown announced a massive expansion in wind power. Today as part of an overall drive to switch the UK over to renewable generation. Claiming that it would not be "business as usual" and pointing out that "The North Sea has now passed its peak of oil and gas supply", the PM called for a "National Debate" on reaching a target of 15% of UK electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Together these areas account for up to 500 Megawatts of new generat...
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The Big Welsh Gas Project: October 2007
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Well, they told us all these wonderful new gas import projects would be up and running in time, they told us the high prices over the last two years would come down. They told us all these wonderful projects would guarantee "security of supply" to Industry and the Consumers of Britain. Better get used to it. The DisUnited Kingdom sits at the end of a pipeline network that starts in Russia, and North Sea gas reserves are running down fast. But for th...
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The Big Welsh Gas Project: July 2008
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Monday, July 07, 2008. It's Deja Vu all over again. It's all here. LNG terminals, a high pressure gas pipeline shipping gas to a wealthier neighbour, eminent domain (compulsory purchase in this country), protected areas at risk, peoples safety compromised, communities united in opposition. Nope Oregon, USA. But the parallels are uncanny nonetheless. Thursday, July 03, 2008. Where were you Ms. Wood? But where were you Ms Wood? It needs to be understood that the Terminals and pip...
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The Big Welsh Gas Project: August 2008
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Monday, August 25, 2008. Irish Unification - Electrically. On the 22nd of August, a small but significant step occurred on the road to Irish Unification. EirGrid, the Irish Republic's state-owned electricity transmission system operator, bought. SONI - the company that runs the electricity transmission system for Northern Ireland. In any case, it may come as no surprise to learn that Sinn Fein. Have welcomed EirGrid's move. But does Ian Paisley know about it? Over the massive p...
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The Big Welsh Gas Project
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Thursday, December 11, 2008. Let's Make it a Date Then! After a year and a half of delays, a date has been sketched in for the commissioning. Of South Hook LNG. Funnily enough, this date pretty much co-incides with the commissioning of a number of other LNG terminals, too. One of them is called Adriatic LNG. In the Mediterranean, and the other is Golden Pass LNG on the other side of the Atlantic in the US. So do they have anything else in common? You need a mole!
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The Big Welsh Gas Project
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Sunday, February 02, 2014. What goes around comes around. Four and a half thousand miles away from where I sit and type, on the other side of the Atlantic, sits a massive industrial complex. On the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, in the heart of Cajun country, it’s an incongruous sight. It dominates the skyline. A vast terminal for the processing of imported Liquefied Natural Gas, or LNG. On the banks of the Sabine River, Louisiana, the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal. But flip the coin a...
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The Big Welsh Gas Project: February 2014
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Wednesday, February 05, 2014. Why Are You Using Loughor As A Guinea Pig? A recent packed public meeting in Burry Port saw heated exchanges as the company behind a proposed gas development in the Burry Inlet was forced to admit to an “uncontrolled explosion” at a Spanish trial site. In the case of the El Tremedal site, at a remote rural location, the accident led to short-term contamination of the site, but questions remain about the potential impact of such an accident on a pro...
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The Big Welsh Gas Project: "Why Are You Using Loughor As A Guinea Pig?"
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Wednesday, February 05, 2014. Why Are You Using Loughor As A Guinea Pig? A recent packed public meeting in Burry Port saw heated exchanges as the company behind a proposed gas development in the Burry Inlet was forced to admit to an “uncontrolled explosion” at a Spanish trial site. In the case of the El Tremedal site, at a remote rural location, the accident led to short-term contamination of the site, but questions remain about the potential impact of such an accident on a pro...
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The Big Welsh Gas Project: May 2008
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The Big Welsh Gas Project. Thursday, May 22, 2008. Amid all the ideological spleen flying about over the unveiling of a tinplate. Image of Maggie Thatcher in the Senedd, it pays to take a closer look at the legacy that Thatcher has bequeathed on us here in Wales, particularly in terms of government policy. Behind this rhetoric, however, it's quite clear that for the past 5 years the Assembly government and it's London handlers has been quietly supporting. This process of deregulation began in the 1980s w...
