Council to join private firms for tidal energy

Regarding my post below, I unreservedly withdraw the insinuation that Mr. Green is paying himself £1,180 per week.

I understand that the £61,000 "in management fees" paid to 3 Greenlights and the £5,000 in expenses by Ecoisland, COULD have been disbursed to more than one person.

tony,
just a thought.

There have no indications that the £1,180 per week boss of this "Community" interest company is around.

No tweets since 28 December (when he went to see Anita Dobson? in The Merry Wives of Wiondsor), no facebook boasts or any other communication.

Maybe the strain of living on £1,180 per week is getting too much and he has gone on another world jaunt to promote himself.

Just a thought, if messrs benyon, pugh and rayban wired up the tidal turbines the island would probably end up motoring off down the channel as between the three of them they couldn;t wire a plug

Graeme you forgot, Wightlink, red funnel, bridge, tourists, cowes school, pot holes

I remember reading about a game NHS staff used to play: it involved taking a list of words to meetings and crossing them off to play Bingo.
If anyone would like to play along with IWCP stories Bingo, my words from midnight tonight will be : Council, Renewable, Wind Turbine, Planning, Superstore, Fire, Overturned, Vandalism, Proposal and Badger.

win.

tony,

I don't think that ANY Council employee will get within 5 miles of this proposal, and rightly so.
Would that have been the case in the Undercliff Drive fiasco.

But, unlike Egoisland, we shall ALL be "stakeholders" in any new tidal turbines and when they are up and running, we could be exporting energy to the mainland, which will never happen with wind and solar.

However, to ensure its progress, we need to blow (sic) away the wind farm threat.

That can best be done by turning up in large numbers on Monday 7th at County Hall at 6 p.m. to oppose the application for 1 wind turbine at Great Park.

At the last count, there are 538 letters of objection and 9 (YES, NINE) letters of support and we are expected to believe the male cow excrement of "the majority of people are for wind farms" propaganda, as perpetuated by IWRadio (80% of people are in favour of wind farms) and the CP and their adulation of Egoisland.
Keep the faith. The good guys usually w

Tony have to agree with you. Windmills are the Hoola Hoops, the Rubik Cubes, the Mini Skirts, Rock 'n' Roll etc. The FADS of the moment. The trouble is that the 'tree huggers' are unable to see this because they lack the experience of "life"

Judging by the councils superb project management skills so ably demonstrated with the schools fiasco in cowes i would hope they play no part in the design or placement of the turbines, having said that the idea is the most sensible one so far as at least the power output is dependable and predictable unlike the windmills

us having an income to help pay for it

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