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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Information about the Mossmorran Chemical Processing Plant

Noise Pollution and Health

11 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)

11 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 [...]

The Dawn Chorus o Mossmorran

11 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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The Mossmorran Flare

1 year ago

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As everyone in the locality knows, Mossmorran had another bout of flaring, which lasted over a couple of days, day and night, constantly, much to the annoyance of the locality. Below is a video captured by a local resident on the morning of 21/06/10, which clearly shows the light pollution, [...]

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Flaring at Mossmorran

1 year ago

by Lochgelly | Views 6392

Mossmorran began another session of flaring again from last night (Saturday 19th June 2010). We have received a few emails complaining about the noise and today at 9:25pm I can hear the sound from the local co-op so I do sympathise with the residents at the top of the town. The noise and flaring [...]

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Mossmorran – Updated

2 years ago

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Recently we published an article about Mossmorran, after we heard through the Community Council that Lochgelly was close to evacuation after a major incident at the Mossmorran complex. We made a public freedom of information request through the excellent website www.whatdotheyknow.com to Fife Fire [...]

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Lochgelly close to Evacuation?

2 years ago

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It has come to our attention that within the past 2 weeks there was a major Fire incident at the Mossmorran complex which almost called for residents from the top half of Lochgelly to be evacuated. Unfortunately this major incident was failed to be reported and obtaining any information about the [...]

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Orange sky at night…………

2 years ago

by Lochgelly | Views 11509

………..Mossmorran is flaring again tonight. The joys of living in Lochgelly (and Cowdenbeath) as Mossmorran, the ExxonMobil Ethylene Plant has started to flare again. Today between 1:30pm – 2:30pm, the local area was loudly reminded of their neighbour operating in the area, as the noise signaled the [...]

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