Wednesday, January 03, 2007


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:


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?

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