Palm oil and Portland - what danger? (From Dorset Echo)

MONICA CANN Seems to be in a world of her own, has she not seen the devastation caused by the de-forestation that is taking place in order to grow the palm oil and the fact that people are being made homeless and jobless as they destroy the land, and the destruction of the natural habitat of the Orang-utan one of the most beautiful and intelligent creatures that is under threat from extinction. The fact that they are going to transport the oil halfway round the world in order to supply a Mickey Mouse power station that is only viable now because of government subsidies and will be obsolete in a few short years, then a bit nearer to home my objection is living on top of a plant that will be burning the oil in diesel engines to generate electricity and even with all of today’s technology diesel engines are still dirty things and always will be. Perhaps she wouldn’t mind if I parked a lorry outside her house and left it running 24/7. The amount of electricity produced is very small and the good people of Bristol had more sense than to let them build a plant their but then perhaps the powers that be are not as corrupt as ours. As for the comment about the turnout for the demonstration I think it was a brilliant turnout and is in no way indicative of the general feeling against this plant, if we were given the opportunity to have a referendum on the issue I feel quite sure that 75% would be against. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE or the oil if they get their way.

Likeitornot - You are talking absolute rubbish. You have no evidence to any of your outlandish claims and have just made up a load of rubbish.
Stop getting your information from wikipedia and find a better source

nigefromdorchester wrote:
Likeitornot - You are talking absolute rubbish. You have no evidence to any of your outlandish claims and have just made up a load of rubbish.
Stop getting your information from wikipedia and find a better source

I think it is you that are talking rubbish, we both have different views but I respect your right to your opinion and you must respect mine, and as you appear to live in Dorchester I don’t really see that it affects you one way or another. My opinions are based on fact I am not a tree hugger by any means but to destroy another country in order to give us fuel is disgraceful to say the least as is this sort of development on the Jurassic coast. I could write pages to try and persuade you otherwise but you appear to be one of these f***k you jack I am alright people as long as you get electricity you don’t care where it comes from.