“On Thursday, a Cornish-based company announced that it had found lithium – a component in electric car batteries – of a “globally significant” grade just north of Redruth.
The company said the lithium in hot salty springs deep underground had the potential to turn Cornwall into the UK’s hub for battery materials and create hundreds of jobs. It even said there could be enough lithium in Cornwall to meet all the UK’s demand if and when the country moves from fossil fuel vehicles to electric ones.
The company, Cornish Lithium, believes that commercial production could start within three to five years, and claims the find could lead to a string of battery plants being built in the far south-west of England.”
“Located on the promenade to north of the Heugh Battery Museum, the amphitheatre is viewed as one of the town’s most valuable cultural assets.
Photographs dating back to the early 1900s indicate it was used for a range of public events, community celebrations and entertainment with seating built in to the retaining wall, a Victorian bandstand and a café.”
“…. in a newsletter to residents that the authority had “given notice” to Benchmark that it would not renew its development contract when it ends in December.
Scarborough Council has now denied this claim.”
A fairly hefty storm
““Signing the contract with GE Renewable Energy is not just great news for Dogger Bank and GE, but for the wider offshore wind industry, marking the first time a 13MW turbine will be installed in the world.”
“Our Government has utterly failed to protect the Dogger Bank, and all our marine protected areas, from destructive industrial fishing. How can you continue to allow bottom trawlers to plough the seabed in a protected area designed specifically to protect the seabed? It beggars belief that this Government continues to call itself a ‘global ocean champion’ when it leaves its own seas at the mercy of destructive industrial fishing.
“Allowing bottom trawling in a protected area established to protect the seabed is equivalent to allowing bulldozers to plough through a protected forest. This must stop. Our Government won’t act, and we can’t sit idly by while they allow supposedly protected parts of our oceans to be destroyed.
Small Town Politics…
“One source said: “Horizon is a development company with no track record in nuclear construction, commissioning or operations.
“Building this capability from scratch in a nuclear context is a huge task, riddled with risk and uncertainty for investors.”
“”At the same time Hitachi is a nuclear equipment manufacturer with no experience of long term operations as a utility.”
They said this made the Government wary about whether the scheme was deliverable on the price and timescales being proposed.
They added: “The killer reason, in my view is this. If you are government looking to invest circa £20bn in a first of a kind nuclear development, why Horizon?””
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