Gas storage under threat as industry loses taste for salt

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » 19 Jan 2009, 06:17

Times OnLine - 19/01/09

Plans to strengthen the security of Britain's energy supplies by building more gas storage facilities are being threatened by the collapsing demand for salt in the chemicals industry.

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biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 19 Jan 2009, 07:32

schemes have been held up by ... difficulties obtaining planning permission from local authorities

A Lincolnshire gas storage scheme has been objected to by the local Tory MP, Peter Tapsell.

RuncornBridge · Post by **RuncornBridge** » 19 Jan 2009, 10:10

Oooh Eer. I'm sitting on a bomb!!! do hope nobody drops a match.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 19 Jan 2009, 10:50

RuncornBridge wrote:Oooh Eer. I'm sitting on a bomb!!! do hope nobody drops a match.

Kind of a good incentive for your entire community to give up smoking innit

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RuncornBridge · Post by **RuncornBridge** » 20 Jan 2009, 17:43

RenewableCandy wrote:
RuncornBridge wrote:Oooh Eer. I'm sitting on a bomb!!! do hope nobody drops a match.
Kind of a good incentive for your entire community to give up smoking innit ?

Here? no chance.

aliwood · Post by **aliwood** » 20 Jan 2009, 17:53

RuncornBridge wrote:do hope nobody drops a match.

Er, are you in some sort of time warp or is there an embargo? Everyone I see striking up these days seems to have a lighter.

Pernickertily yours

RuncornBridge · Post by **RuncornBridge** » 21 Jan 2009, 17:29

Aliwood - ah but, if you drop a lighter it'll go out, not so a match, anyway miss fussy it was only a turn of phrase

BTW where are you on Teesside, my sister is in Stockton so I visit a couple of times a year, I love the area.