Published: Wednesday, 21st July, 2010 12:11pm

Councillor backs coal station plan

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Jim Perman

Largs Community Council have warned that 'you can wave goodbye' to house prices if plans for a coal-fired power station proceed - but one committee member has backed the controversial proposals.

Local accountant Mr Jim Perman, who has been at loggerheads with most of the other councillors over a financial dispute, said: "Either you want to litter the place with windmills and have another nuclear station, or you have this. What's it to be?"

He was only one of the eight councillors who voted against leafletting the public about the proposed coal plant.

Full report in the Largs & Millport Weekly News of July 21

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• Jupiter
  Jul 23 10 12:35
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  Coal power may be cleaner than it used to be, but I suspect I'm not alone in remembering the days when a coal station upwind of you meant a constant fall of dust and soot. Lets not forget, too, that carbon capture is, in 2010, still something of a pipe dream.
  
  The idea has the support of some trade unions (as reported in this paper a few weeks back) but only because of the mistaken and naive belief that it will resurrect Scottish coal mining. Hunterston already imports vast quantities of cheap coal, and will be further utilised for the proposed station, I'm sure.
  
  The only common-sense answer is Hunterston C. What's so bad about more nuclear Mr P? Unfortunately the current Executive are on some sort of moral crusade against all things nuclear, but they are only delaying the inevitable, I fear, and thus adding to the cost. Hunterston A & B have been good neighbours - why shouldn't C be too?
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