Time for National Grid to split?

Amazing to think that this camp started with a little black dog called Max! What you're looking at is a public footpath (part of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path) that National Grid rather foolishly forgot to close off. A local landowner regularly walked her dog along the path, and couldn't work out why the contractors hadn't bulldozed through it yet. Residents in the area, inspired by the Trebanos protest camp, took a chance and pitched up.

While Milford Haven hasn't hogged as much of the limelight as it's sisters up the line, it's probably the most strategically significant as it prevents National Grid from connecting the pipeline to the terminals. No connection, no gas. Simple.

GGATCHA!

Construction of the pipeline hit a small hitch last year when excavation uncovered a Bronze Age canoe, widely reported in the media. What the media conveniently omitted was the fact that the pipeline ploughed through an entire Bronze Age village in the process of retrieving this canoe.

Oddly enough, despite the fact that the canoe was discovered in Pembrokeshire, the canoe was donated to the Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust, where it is held in Newport. As it turns out, GGAT is a statutory consultee for Phases 1 and 2 of the pipeline route. Maybe this would explain GGAT's silence over this act of wanton destruction...

Archaeologists are still uncertain as to whether the object is definitely a canoe, or maybe a trough of some kind. Well, if it's a trough, it's not hard to spot the snouts...

Residents of the small town of Amlwch on Anglesey may be gearing up to oppose plans by American energy multinational Canatxx to build an LNG terminal and pipe it undersea to Fleetwood in Lancashire. The company, which plans to store some of this gas in massive salt caverns, has already sparked local opposition in Lancashire. Check it out here:

http://www.thorntonactiongroup.co.uk/

No doubt arguments about this development will polarise into the usual "Jobs versus Environment" where locals in one of the poorest areas of Wales, let alone the United Kingdom, are forced to choose between the few jobs created by these massive developments, at the expense of a clean, safe environment to live in.

But given LNG is a specialist industry relatively new to the UK, how many of those jobs will be filled by local people anyway?