I love number 2, Mark!

As for sea/tide, I'm sure this would be more reliable than wind and less visually disturbing for some too. But it is very expensive to install and specific locations have particular concerns - aesthetic and environmental with effects on wildlife potentially dire. It seems no form of producing energy is completely sound and uncontroversial.

That's great to hear Ron nothing like standing up for what you feel is right just like FOB. Hence we live in a free state. And yes I agree always best to look at other forms of Energy: two really good ones came up at the meeting the other Friday night
(1) Use the sea or tide
(2) The one I liked rather than pay Centrica £42 million a year in subsidiaries. Use the money each year to put Solar panels on our roofs and reduce our energy bills. This also creates more jobs than the biomass plant in making and installing them plus its cleaner, greener and more energy efficient too. Just a thought!

Depends what you mean by "fought", Mark. I have argued long and hard over many issues and used to demonstrate in person on some [usually environmental topics]. Nowadays, I try to be more positive and, in this case, am looking at the best ways for producing energy rather than those I do not like.

Ron one fight at a time mate!!! Fair play to Scott and the rest of FOB for standing up to a large company like Centrica and local MPs, for what he feels is right not just for himself and his family but also many other people of Furness.
Q: What’s the last thing you stood up and fought for?

Ron sorry to burst your bubble but each turbine contains some 'rare earth elements'. Jump on google and just how 'clean' the mining and processing of these elements is.

Scott, actually I for one would have assumed anyone worried about emissions from a power plant would be consistent and be against nuclear [and coal and oil] power as well as biomass. Renewables are the only completely clean form of energy production but we know they are insufficient for our needs. Thus we need SOME "dirty" energy production.

Doug, because we are against biomass why do you assume we are anti nuclear? That is a tactic of the vested pro biomass lobby. You put up with x and y so what is wrong with putting up with z? Doesn't work out that way mate.

But everyone is cool with people building NUCLEAR submarines a mile or so down the road, right? Right?

But everyone is cool with people building NUCLEAR submarines a mile or so down the road, right? Right?

Ray, I am completely neutral on the issue and certainly not interested on insulting those with different views. I prefer arguments based on evidence rather than on insults, and am put off any views where those who support them seem merely to want to attack our MP or anyone else with whom they disagree. If the views expressed inform me of the dangers posed by bio-mass plants or of the safety precautions taken to overcome them, then I will read them; otherwise, I will not.
Scott, if Ray was not trying to belittle me by saying I was unable to understand his arguments, then he achieved it without trying.