Lochgelly Centre – Official Reopening (images)

The Lochgelly Centre was officially reopened on the 14th February 2012. As part of the celebration Lochgelly High School Brass Band and Choir were on hand to provide music throughout the ceremony. Councillor Brian Goodall cut the ribbon to mark the opening, and then an acrobatic performance was [...]

Mossmorran, will the incident on June 2011 be repeated?

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 [...]

Local group under threat of closure

With the ongoing ‘austerity’ measures enforced on local authorities we have seen reduction in public services and quality of service as the local authorities try to juggle services to fit into tight budget limitations. The austerity measures have also had an impact on many local charity groups as [...]

Lochgelly North School to improve the local environment

In celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee, the Lochgelly North Special School in partnership with the Woodland Trust have committed themselves to planting 61 trees in a bid to help regenerate and improve the local environment. Other groups committed to planting trees includes Foulford Primary [...]

Lochgelly Galleries

Lochgelly (Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh) is a town in Fife, Scotland. It is located between Lochs Ore and Gelly [1] to the north-west and south-east respectively. It is separated from Cowdenbeath by the village of Lumphinnans. According to the 2007 population estimate, the town has a population of [...]

Is Wind The Answer?

Experts to debate in St Andrews Public information event organized by Cameron Community Council St Andrews Town Hall, 7.15pm 1st March 2012 Love them or loathe them, wind turbines are coming to Fife. From industrial-scale wind farms to back-garden turbines, Fife is facing a torrent of [...]

Questions concerning Little Raith Wind Farm

We had a meeting with the developer of Little Raith Wind Farm (Kennedy Renewables) and their PR/Political Lobbying group (Invicta PA) back in October. Unfortunately, most of our questions couldn’t be answered at the time, but the developer took note of the issues and concerns raised, and notified [...]

Industrial Wind Farm for Kelty, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans and Lochgelly

Attending the Lochgelly Community Council meeting, last night (08/02/12), we heard a presentation from Banks Renewables who are seeking to build 6 x 125 metre turbines in close proximity to the Lochore Meadows, Kelty, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans and Lochgelly communities. The developers stated that [...]

Mossmorran

2 days 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

1 week ago

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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?

1 week ago

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Councillor Hood seeks views on Mossmorran

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 153

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?

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 196

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)

4 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 244

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

4 months ago

by chic | Views 401

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 [...]

Noise Pollution and Health

8 months ago

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I’m writing this guest post as a response to the posts regarding the problems with noise emanating from the Exxon Mobil owned Fife Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran. In reading the response from Catherine Cubitt at Exxon Mobil, which Kirkcaldy councillor Judy Hamilton sent to me, I noted that they made [...]

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Mossmorran Flare (11th June 2011)

8 months ago

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The following images were all submitted by a user that resides in South Street who wishes to remain anonymous. Images are of the flare at Mossmorran captured on Saturday 11th June 2011, from the early hours of the morning through to daytime. Thank you for submitting your images, and if anyone else [...]

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The Dawn Chorus o Mossmorran

8 months ago

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We have had several enquiries from individuals from all over Fife, asking if Mossmorran was responsible for all the noise in the early hours of Saturday morning, roughly between 3:00am – 5:00am. A couple of local residents from South Street in Lochgelly contacted us complaining about the noise from [...]

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