Hunterston News
'No clean coal station for Largs area' 
Clean Coal technology is still in its infancy, but clean as it may be, it is certainly not pretty. The last thing we need next to Largs is a massive coal-fired power station looming over Fairlie with stockpiles of coal visible from Millport and any boat sailing off the North Coast.
Nuclear has operated safely, efficiently and relatively unobtrusively at Hunterston for decades, and any new ‘C’ station would blend in well at the existing site – retaining well-paid jobs without damaging our vital tourist industry.
Clean-coal power station for Hunterston?
The envisaged end of nuclear power could be upon us if Clydeport ‘masterplan’ proposals get the go-ahead to build a clean-coal power station which would link to the national grid in 2016. Read the document on-line.
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