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, [...]

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 [...]

Mossmorran

Information about the Mossmorran Chemical Processing Plant

Corporate Hospitality from Mossmorran

1 week ago

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Community Council – March 2012 – A reply from Mossmorran

1 month ago

by Lochgelly | Views 347

Admin Note: The following article is a response from Fife Ethylene Plant in reply to the article; Community Council – March 2012 The Fife Ethylene Plant would like to take this opportunity to correct some inaccuracies in the article on your website from the Community Council Meeting on 14th March [...]

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Community Council – March 2012

1 month ago

by Lochgelly | Views 324

These are not the official Community Council minutes. The article is compiled from the notes taken at the public meeting The Community Council held their monthly meeting on the 14th March at the Royal Oak Community Club (The Phoenix). Before beginning the meeting, the Chair informed the members of [...]

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3 months ago

Mossmorran has been fined £2.8 million for failing to report Carbon Dioxide emissions from the plant in 2008 according to the Courier. Mossmorran failed to report 33,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, which only recently came to light, and SEPA issued the fine under regulations that state $100 (USD) per tonne of emissions is imposed, a total of $3.29 million (£2.8m GDP).

The article doesn’t appear to be online as yet, but is available in this weeks Courier (page 19). We’ll add a link once it has been published online.

Mossmorran WInd Turbines Approved

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 578

Thanks to one of our site commentators, we have learned that another set of turbines have been approved that will affect the Cowdenbeath area and will possibly have a cumulative impact on the Lochgelly area. The comment that alerted us was; Two 100 metre wind turbines have just been approved as a [...]

Mossmorran Wind-Turbines

Mossmorran, will the incident on June 2011 be repeated?

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 237

On the 11th June 2011 at 3:10am, Mossmorran suffered an incident which resulted in excessive noise pollution, vibration and light pollution which caused one local to write a darkly comic doric poem, titled; ‘Dawn Chorus O Mossmorran‘. This article was the most commented article to ever appear on [...]

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Councillor Hood seeks views on Mossmorran

6 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 225

In an earlier article; Mossmorran – Time Bomb, we mentioned how local councillor Mark Hood was looking to conduct a survey to see how much of an impact Mossmorran has on the local areas affected. One of the reasons to conduct the survey was to try and get hard data, to present to the various groups [...]

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Mossmorran – Time Bomb?

6 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 301

The Community council raised concern over the recent flaring events at Mossmorran which has been mostly non-stop for the past 2 weeks. Community Councillors have made the call again that a representative from Mossmorran should be attending the Community Council. It emerged that the Community [...]

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Community Council (Oct 11)

7 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 388

One of the site coordinators; James, attended the latest Community Council meeting (12th October) to raise the issue of Little Raith Wind Farm. At the same time, this has given us an opportunity to provide an update on the Lochgelly Community Council. Note: The report below may contain errors as [...]

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many thanks for your research on mossmorran and the little raith wind farm

7 months ago

by chic | Views 555

well done on your work regards the wind farm being dumped on our door step i live in watson st cowdenbeath and i think it a disgrace that the council pass these applications without regard for the well being of the community, as for mossmorran it would be very interesting to see a survey done now [...]