Alan Smith, a 48 year old director of A&C Construction in Crieff in Perthshire has admitted in court to activity liable to cause pollution.
This activity was in respect of the building of a ford the the Castles Estate Hydro Project in Dalmally in Lorn.
The consequences of Mr Smith’s works were the pollution by solids contaminated with oil os a series of streams in the area:
- Allt Coire Lair
- Allt Coire Chreachan
- Allt Mhoille
A retread of an article in many of yesterdawy’s papers where it seems a subcontractor installing a pipeline and creating an access ford across a river allowed a plume of silt and suspended solids to enter water courses.
In an attempt to discredit green energy projects, and the Scottish Government, the Scotsman actually declared that ….” a hydro scheme designed to generwte power destroyed a colony of fresh water pearl mussels”.
Nonsense of course because any contruction work be it a school a hospital, a bridge or a road can cause pollution if carried out negligently or carelessly.
Good thing that the ForArgyll would never attempt such biased and misleading reporting.
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Are you really that daft, Willie? The man was in court and admitted the activity.
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Yes, and forestry extraction too, which caused weeks of mucky brown water in our house….
All sorted now, as nature heals its wounds.
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And your point Lowry, it missed me, or was there one.
As Dp points out, forestry extraction can also pollute water with disturbed solids. So what is, too use a currently topical word, fracking daft about what I said.
Belly, mouth, open rumble, are other words that I think of when I read a comment such as your goodself has just posted.
Going out now, catch you later, cha.
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It seems to have been more than ‘disturbed solids’ in this case – the solids were apparently contaminated with oil.
These days new road construction for windfarms seems to involve precautions against silting of watercourses, and I imagine the same applies to forestry roads etc construction, so this case does sound particularly reckless.
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Actually, Hydraulic fluid and gear oil…no berming, no fuel spill procedure in place, etc..etc… poor contractor with a veneer of an environmental management plan… Serves them right…lets hope more shoddy operators follow.
just a shame some folk can’t seem to distance themselves from the renewables (not green) energy connection.
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The ford could just as easily have been constructed as part of a process of timber extraction or pretty much any other kind of development.
The fact that it was a hydro project that wrecked the river is ironic, but otherwise irrelevant – and to Newsroom’s credit she has not slanted the article this way.
I too found yesterday’s Hootsmon article hysterical in tone.
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The Hootsmon is hysterical all over.
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