Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Phew, it was a long time coming but thankfully Brent council are set to make Brent a, wait for it..............
can you guess?..............
Hold on..............
Not much longer.........
A fracking free zone.
Hah, ha ha ha ha.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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wonderful news philip, can you tell me where i can get a lapel badge and car sticker from please?
oh i nearly forgot, do you know if they have released a fracking song yet?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I just hope that the govenrment carry on with what plans they have in place to get fuel out of the ground you all shout when the cost of heating etc goes up and when they try to find ways of bring it down thats wrong as well.And they are only drill test holes.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I have not heard from any reliable source that any of the planned 'advances' in extracting fuel in and around the UK is to bring consumer costs down Victor.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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no but it might stop it going up.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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spot on tom even the prime minister and chancellor have said it will have no effect on our energy bills.
very different in the states though.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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strange idea
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Guest 1057- Registered: 21 Sep 2013
- Posts: 25
To top off the borehole drilling application Guston are to be receiving a planning application for two Solar Parks, just what's needed at the moment. On one side we have exploratory drilling for methane and the other 2 large fields surrounded with 3 meter high solar panels. It's a toss up between fossil fuel or going green! They always say it comes in 3's so we are just waiting for the wind turbine to be chucked into the mix
Poor little Guston think we might as well get the bulldozers started up
If anyone is interested the fields ear marked are field opposite Duke of Yorks restaurant and Petrol station, across the road on Jubilee Way, so the corner field as you start along the Dover Deal Road towards the Swingate. Second field is little further along Dover Deal Road, get to turning for Guston on the left opp Swingate inn and the field ear marked is the next one on the left after turning.
Planning app is not yet in but GPC have been approached by the company involved as they wish to get cosy and no doubt shortly inform the community. Here we go again !
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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what guston is missing is a good anti fracking song.
all together now with a face showing sincerity "we shall overcome, we shall overcome some day (repeat in plaintive tones).
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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We already have planning applications for a wind turbine and a solar panel array at Eythorne on, or very close to, the old colliery site. There's a group opposed to the turbine - probably not got a song though - which also has a cross over membership with the village anti frackers.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There is nothing wrong with having two fields of soler panels better then having full up with housing that are not needed and that could happen the fields are no where near Guston,and also the field with them on the rd to Ramsgate does not look out of place,
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#309
Fra'king
If you go up to the woods today
you're in for a big surprise
if you go up to the woods today
you'd best go in disguise
For every scare that ever there was
you'll experience there for certain,
because, these days the countryside's
where they do their Fracking
Now that all this Fracking
has Government backing
what can anyone do
the wood on the hill
with their mini-earthquakes
they'll send sliding down to you
With this now out of the way Howard, who knows? Downs, Downs, deeper 'n' Downs?
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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A solar park eh? Now if there was ever anything for the population to rise up against it's solar parks and wind farms.
All this bleating about methane is nothing compared to the travesty which is the middle class Utopian dream of what can best be described as unicorn energy.
But, unfortunately, the concerns of the local villagers in the area have been, once again, hijacked by extreme environmentalists who,bizarrely, believe in the cult of wind and sun.
Only a complete fool would think this scheme to be a good idea especially in the knowledge that the main reason for our energy bills increasing is the emergence of wind and solar sold as an answer to our energy problems.
What the useful idiots don't get is that it's just one more example of the rich screwing the poor.
Oh the blind fools.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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How's this:
My old man's a dustman he wears a dustman's hat,
but now he's called a recycling operative and he just sounds like a person with a different job title.
He thinks it's great for all of us to cow tow to the toffs,
by giving them money to waste on wind, solar, biomass, tidal, biomass, wind chimes, yurts, oppose fracking, hate nuclear and shut down perfectly good coal fired power stations in order to save the planet.
I know it doesn't scan but the lyrics are good.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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So some of you would still carry on by buying in all our fuel from overseas and leting them blackmail us.and that is happing right now over cost of fuel+they can cut it off anytime they want to Wind,solar,coal,oil,recycling ,mining again,can all help to cut our costs of fuel from overseas,and we have it all under our feet ,name other ways we can get our own fuel ?it will help keep our parishs unlike housing ,infact just take coal it made parishs as a parish cllr I would go for soler,coal,etc anytime over housing.I also think all our power stations should run on clean coal. but none of want you are saying is happing again they are only drilling TEST HOLES no more and no less ,do not run before you can walk.
Guest 1057- Registered: 21 Sep 2013
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#311 no where near Guston...think you need to get a local map out. Guston's housing is separated out into 3 different clusters of housing and the residents who live on The Lane opp The Swingate Inn are Guston Residents and the field for the solar park surrounds their homes
The house property prices in Guston will be worthless by the time these energy suppliers are finished. A lot of residents have been here all their lives, worked hard and will be left with properties that they can either not sell or are greatly reduced in value. But we might get our fuel bills lowered...well brilliant that sways it then!
Yes we need our own fuel, that's an obvious fact but these areas are ill-sited. Many people are not against the idea of exploratory drilling, but why should a historic village be earmarked for industrial intrusion. It simply is not right.
And we are getting housing and some lovely industrial units, new roads with heavy lorries coming through the village when our phase of the Whitfield development reaches us. In recent years we had the fight against the prison at our barracks. It's an endless battle to keep the Guston that we all know and love
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
oooooooooooh I dunno about these solar panels or wind turbines,might get solar panel fumes and toxic fallout from the wind turbines.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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As I said you are running away with yourself over this,what you are saying will not happen,You need to worry about the housing issue and I agree with you on that one and that is why I am on a parish council,but all the other issues you are talking about will not happen a few soler panals in a field maybe but that will not happen anyway yet.I also want to keep Guston and other parishs as they are .I was also against the prison and was there on the day.+one of the fields you are talking about,could turn into one very big lorry park, it has been talked and look at this pass two years and talks are still on going,so a few test bor holes could stop that from happening ,so lots to think about over this one,and also all the exhousing that is going to be build around as well.So I am for going down the rd of test borholes that is all they are going to do,but we know for a fact that the housing is coming and even the lorry pk is on the cards at this time.And they might not find even what they are looking for,Dover sits on white chalk so I do not think they will find much in that,but again I do not know.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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i thought post 318 wanted to speak to the council as the professional expert?
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,874
Although not exactly attractive I would rather have solar panels in a field near me rather than the wind turbines.
What I am unable to understand is why all new properties do not have to have solar panels installed on the roof as a way of generating and conserving energy.
Stirring again Keith?
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