Just a quick response here, the land is not Green Belt, this was confirmed over two years ago! The planning is delayed but as you say there are no show stoppers and once the issues have been fully addressed, which is currently in progress, the project will go ahead.
There is a much bigger threat to Britains water courses in the pipeline, despite what you think hydro schemes like our proposal are pretty much benign. The biggest threat is from Fracking, the British government have just given the go ahead for Fracking to be developed and there are proposed projects all over the UK. In North America Fracking has been proven to poison many water courses by releasing not just methane but also a poisonous cocktail of other chemicals and gases which have leached into water courses effectively killing them. The air quality near these projects has also been found to be very poor and in some cases, highly toxic.
I think there is a serious need to protest against these Fracking developments because the potential environmental damage is massive, if found to be harmful, hydro schemes can be removed but if the water courses are destroyed by poisoning there is no going back! I know there are a number of planning applications in at the moment for Fracking projects and these need to be rejected with great urgency, the government are going to want these to be approved because there is big money at stake here but at what cost to the environment?
I know some of you on here see me and the other hydro developers as environmental terrorists but we are not, we are small fry compared to the big energy companies who just want to make money regardless of impact!
Pondy.
