Share your local News & Views

We are making a call to members of the local community who would like to create and share their local news and views about Lochgelly and the surrounding areas. There are many local issues within the Lochgelly area, and many positive and negative developments and news, but due to time [...]

Blue alert! Bluebells on their way – and earlier than last year…

The Woodland Trust is calling for the public to find their nearest wood and record the first appearance of native bluebells, as it tracks the arrival: http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/map/current.htm?rsid=164&reid=3&ry=2012&rs=S of the flowers across the country this spring. The conservation [...]

Corporate Hospitality from Mossmorran

It emerged at the Lochgelly Community Council meeting for March, that Mossmorran has been offering and providing gifts and events, to community representatives that serve on the Mossmorran Community Liaison Group. This may also extend to local representatives that serve on other Mossmorran [...]

Homemade Dandelion Cordial

If your looking at trying something new and cheap this week why not make the most of the abundance of Dandelions growing about us in Lochgelly. Here is a really easy recipe to try and it makes for an amazing alternative to squash. Ingredients: As many Dandelion heads as you can get, [...]

Little Raith Wind Farm

4 Winds Development Trust

8 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 653

As part of the Little Raith Industrial Wind Farm a new community group has been formed; 4 Winds Development Trust. This has been formed to distribute up to £45.000 per year between the four communities of Auchtertool, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans, and Lochgelly. This money is paid by everyone in the UK [...]

Environmentally Friendly?

8 months ago

by McKintosh | Views 550

Despoiled Land I live at the top end of Lochgelly and face towards Mossmorran. I am against the industrial wind turbines being built between the dual-carriageway and the cracker plant. The evidence is growing that they don’t work, cause health problems and are detrimental to the land they are built [...]

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Voting Manipulation Trolls

8 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 377

We have been running a poll for Little Raith Wind Farm, and checking the voting logs is quite interesting. As of writing this article there is 55 votes against, and 9 votes for, and 1 vote unsure for Little Raith Industrial Wind Farm. What is interesting is that 7 out of the 9 votes have all been [...]

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Gelly Loch (video)

8 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 600

This video is an image showcase of the Gelly Loch and surrounding scenery, and how the countryside is being used for an Industrial Power Plant, hosting 9×2.7Mw industrial turbines (423ft), next to four communities (Auchtertool, Lochgelly, Lumphinnans & Cowdenbeath) and a chemical processing plant [...]

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Little Raith, Mossmorran & Benzene

8 months ago

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One of the pollutants released by Mossmorran is Benzene. Benzene is a very dangerous chemical if you are exposed to it, it can lead to Leukemia. The first medical condition directly linked to benzene poisoning, aplastic anemia, was discovered in 1897. Aplastic anemia is an umbrella term for a [...]

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New Community Group Launched

8 months ago

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The RWFGroup formed on the 28th August 2011 as an active voluntary group opposed to the development of an Industrial Wind Farm currently being developed in the Lochgelly, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans, and Auchtertool area, and known as Little Raith Wind Farm. Little Raith Wind Farm is an industrial [...]

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Little Raith Wind Farm – Noise Pollution

8 months ago

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With the work at Little Raith underway to build 9 large scale industrial wind turbines, each turbine with a total span of 124 feet, and all turbines within a 2km limit to the houses at South Street and Waters Crescent (the closest turbines will be roughly within 1.3 km) we have decided to look more [...]

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Little Raith Wind Farm – Site Visit

9 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 606

Last night we received a phone call from the Lochgelly Community Development Forum asking if one of our volunteers would be willing to attend a site visit at the proposed site for the Little Raith Wind Farm. The site visit was intended to give further information to local groups about the [...]

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Little Raith Wind Farm

1 year ago

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Lochgelly is set to get it’s own wind farm, which is set to be completed within 12 months and will compromise of 9 nine turbines, with the capacity to generate 27 megawatts which is the equivilent power to supply roughly 15,000 households on a yearly basis. For those that are against the wind farm, [...]

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