MEETING HEARS OF BIOMASS PLANT 11 June 2010
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By Brian Forsyth, Guide & Gazette
http://www.guideandgazette.co.uk/news/MEETING-HEARS-OF-BIOMASS-PLANT.6351603.jp
THE GUEST speaker at last Tuesday's meeting of Broughty Ferry Community Council in the Public Library was Calum Wilson, of Forth Energy, who hope to build a biomass plant in the docks area of Dundee.
Numerous objections had been put forward to the project and Mr Wilson, accompanied by Craig Harrow, PR consultant, and Michael Ward, technical consultant, were in attendance to provide further information following their public consultation.
Mr Wi
ADVERTISEMENTlson said that these had been overwhelmingly positive about support for renewable energy, biomass energy and a biomass plant being situated in Dundee. However there were a number of environmental concerns expressed which they had considered and were able to provide further information on.
On the subject of air quality, Mr Wilson conceded that, as there was a stack, there would be emissions. However, he explained that in order to operate the plant, Forth Energy need a licence, and that would not be granted if the emissions exceeded standards set by the Scottish Government and the EU.
These would be independently determined by Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
He said that Forth Energy hoped to use water from the River Tay as coolant which, as a condition of operation, they would return to the river unpolluted. It would be 10 degrees warmer than it was when it came in and they would have a long outfall so this would be minimised in the flow of the river.
He added that there had been concern over noise levels but stated that the background noise had been measured at sites dictated by Dundee City Council and it had been determined there would be no significant increase.
Mr Wilson said that Forth Energy was already in talks with Nynas and Dundee City Council in terms of their waterfront development, to supply green energy to them. They had also been in discussion with Scottish Enterprise about the possibility of attracting a fuel hungry industry to the site.
Responding to concerns about additional traffic being required to bring in fuel, he explained that most of it would be brought in by sea but some of it could be brought in by road.
As part of the application, he said that the company had applied for a maximum of 25 trucks per day to enter the site. There was an upper limit of 15 per cent of fuel which could be brought in by road. In terms of traffic to the site this would have a negligible impact.
Mr Wilson stressed that the plant would operate within a narrow band of efficient wood fuel and would not be able to burn black bag waste as was the case with the Baldovie incinerator.
He added that their licence would not cover this type of fuel.
The wood would mostly be in the form of pellets which would not be sourced from Scotland as currently there was an inadequate source of indigenous fuel
By Brian Forsyth, Guide & Gazette
http://www.guideandgazette.co.uk/news/MEETING-HEARS-OF-BIOMASS-PLANT.6351603.jp
THE GUEST speaker at last Tuesday's meeting of Broughty Ferry Community Council in the Public Library was Calum Wilson, of Forth Energy, who hope to build a biomass plant in the docks area of Dundee.
Numerous objections had been put forward to the project and Mr Wilson, accompanied by Craig Harrow, PR consultant, and Michael Ward, technical consultant, were in attendance to provide further information following their public consultation.
Mr Wi
ADVERTISEMENTlson said that these had been overwhelmingly positive about support for renewable energy, biomass energy and a biomass plant being situated in Dundee. However there were a number of environmental concerns expressed which they had considered and were able to provide further information on.
On the subject of air quality, Mr Wilson conceded that, as there was a stack, there would be emissions. However, he explained that in order to operate the plant, Forth Energy need a licence, and that would not be granted if the emissions exceeded standards set by the Scottish Government and the EU.
These would be independently determined by Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
He said that Forth Energy hoped to use water from the River Tay as coolant which, as a condition of operation, they would return to the river unpolluted. It would be 10 degrees warmer than it was when it came in and they would have a long outfall so this would be minimised in the flow of the river.
He added that there had been concern over noise levels but stated that the background noise had been measured at sites dictated by Dundee City Council and it had been determined there would be no significant increase.
Mr Wilson said that Forth Energy was already in talks with Nynas and Dundee City Council in terms of their waterfront development, to supply green energy to them. They had also been in discussion with Scottish Enterprise about the possibility of attracting a fuel hungry industry to the site.
Responding to concerns about additional traffic being required to bring in fuel, he explained that most of it would be brought in by sea but some of it could be brought in by road.
As part of the application, he said that the company had applied for a maximum of 25 trucks per day to enter the site. There was an upper limit of 15 per cent of fuel which could be brought in by road. In terms of traffic to the site this would have a negligible impact.
Mr Wilson stressed that the plant would operate within a narrow band of efficient wood fuel and would not be able to burn black bag waste as was the case with the Baldovie incinerator.
He added that their licence would not cover this type of fuel.
The wood would mostly be in the form of pellets which would not be sourced from Scotland as currently there was an inadequate source of indigenous fuel
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