howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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I think we maybe knocking down laboratory's in sandwich ?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it's not all doom and gloom on the old pfizer site keith, new businesses are opening there all the time.
getting back to the thread these photos from ddc facebook page were taken this morning at westminster.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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If the devil could cast his net.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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On their website it finishes with this little line on their "tenancy" page:
" Both types of business will have the opportunity to showcase products from both a B2C and B2B perspective within the 'showcasing' function of the Betteshanger Sustainable Energy Mining and Heritage Park."
Someone tell me - What do they mean by Betteshanger Sustainable Energy Mining?
The report in the local paper says: "The aim is to demonstrate how the UK can move from dependence on fossil fuels to renewables in the form of a large-scale biomass energy centre at the site near Deal."
Dear God. What next?
I guess this project mirrors what else is happening to the UK. One giant heritage theme park with a dwindling manufacturing and energy producing sector with projects like this giving people false hope.
Abandon home all ye who enter.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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who really cares if it brings in jobs philip?
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Have to agree Howard, can only be good for the area,
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon
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probably thinks the 17 immigrants might take all the jobs,whoops that might be kiethb's thoughts.
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Re #5 it is Sustainable Energy at a Mining and Heritage park, that is how I read it anyway.
Audere est facere.
Guest 1094- Registered: 27 Oct 2013
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Hopefully they'll sort out the subsidence first!
DiJones
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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so its got a sinking pit feeling to it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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in all this the main point has been overlooked.
don't paul and laura make a lovely couple?
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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I'm surprised that South Thanet stretches as far as Betteshanger!
On a more serious note, there was an item shown on BBC breakfast tv earlier about the technology involved, using the food waste that gets collected every week to produce methane and fertiliser. The plant shown produced enough gas to manufacture electricity for 1200 homes (though they didn't say whether that was summer or winter levels).
It seems a no brainer if a commercial company takes on the financial risk and makes a profit from recycling a waste product, but just two problems struck me. First, will they only make a profit because of the green subsidies they get and how sustainable or efficient is this in the long run.
Second, it was part of a larger item about reducing food waste by education - as that project gets more successful, they'll having trouble finding enough material for the digesters in future.
I expect it will appear on the BBC website eventually.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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I think South Thanet begins where Sholden ends.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i assumed it sneaked in under south thanet purely because of no charlie in the photos.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Ray is right, this site is now in the Dover & Deal constituency.
don't know who selected the pictures but there were plenty of Charlie taken.
He was the lead speaker.
It has taken 5 years to get this project. To the starting line.
Watty
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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I've just realised Charlie is there, hidden behind the lectern in the second pic and his chin is second from left in the first.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not taking the manufacturers advice when spending public money is totally out of order.
