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Nope no secret at all, Lynemouth power station (foreign owned of course) is the one I think you are referring too. Converted from coal and as you say sitting in top of millions of tons of recoverable reserves. The drive to green net zero utopia has literally turned into a cash cow for those involved. What needs bringing to the gullible masses attention is what’s actually going on.

Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada APPLE.NEWS The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada. If you want to see pure madness and insanity at work the whole green ticket attached to the burning of wood pellets is it, mind you with £6 billion of subsidies alone it certainly is profitable. Panorama would be well advised to take a look at UK renewables as currently it’s nothing more than a massive cash cow for predominantly overseas firms, which we the taxpayers are funding, value for money it is certainly not.

I can’t disagree that the optics were dreadful, whom ever it was that advised in the current climate to throw in the removal of the 45% and bankers bonus caps 🤷‍♂️a massive own goal to say the least. A reduction to the 40% ie the people ( often natural conservatives) grinding it out trying to get on would have been a far better idea. I’m a conservative by nature but also as I’ve stated many times believe in state ownership of essential services and strategically important industries, Right here and now the current political set up and MSM ability to focus on and build up/ pull down an individual at a whim just puts us in a two part in out dance, I’ve certainly zero faith in Labours ability to come in and start sorting much out, especially after watching Starmer recently talking crap on renewables etc. One thing that the last week or so does show is the insane vulnerability of the majority to the whims of the so called “ market” ( playing with numbers and products that sane people can’t even comprehend) people and companies that I’ve no doubt have done very well and generated billions out of the recent situation. I think we are being utterly played at the moment on a scale we can’t even comprehend.

War is a very very profitable business.

No Dempsey it is literally at every possible opportunity, that’s the nature of the interweb I guess,not to worry Easily disproved bollocks is it ??. Newsnight 😳🤷‍♂️ may be running with it, but main news at ten show did not even mention it !! . The coverage of it has been extremely low key, ( bearing in mind it has huge long term consequences for the EUs main economic powerhouse) that’s a fact not bollocks. Like I tell the wife occasionally, “ you ain’t always right”. An interesting topic that will probs go the normal bitch fest route when people can’t stand others having an opinion.

No bolts, welded and laid continuously off a pipe lay vessel. Too deep to just simply send divers down and even if there were flanges to unbolt he’d be a braver man than me to start releasing the tension ( bolts are stretched using a hydraulic system of jacks not tightened by rotating nuts as such) whilst the line is still hot. Divers worst enemy “ differential pressure”

Well the damage pattern will easily give that away ie internal of external force direction and subsequent breach etc. As for the internal option the technology to pig lines has been utilised by the oil and gas industry for ages. Google “pipeline internal inspection or pigging” and there’s a load of info on it.

If I said shit you’d say sugar Dempsey. The coverage of this has been very low key ( when you actually consider what’s occurred) compared to the hysteria over a choice of media favourite crisis of late. Mind you a murder in 1976 and kids and vaping plus half a dozen other stories before we get to Sweden finds another leak🤔priorities priorities. Just sat and watched the BBC news at ten headlines waiting patiently to hear the Nordstream incident get a mention!!! Not a peep 🤷‍♂️but the final article was globally significant ie Coolio “ of gangsters paradise fame” has died aged 59.

From a purely technical point of view most of the route of both Nordstream 1 and 2 are within the reach of divers using either air or mixed gas practices. The support required to utilise the latter would not be something you could sneak in and do unnoticed. There are numerous countries that have the capability of utilising manned and unmanned subsea vessels to carry out placement of charges against objects or targets( maybe now the vulnerability of the huge amount of subsea interconnecter cables and pipelines to Europe and Scandinavia needs a look at) some of the techniques used during UXO clearance ie acoustic triggering are out there and easily available commercially. What’s obvious is the fact it’s a well planned and coordinated effort which has achieved its aims quite spectacularly, although the coverage within the MSM for what is a huge event is actually quite tame seeing as we live in a world where the word crisis is thrown about often. As for the reason why 🤷‍♂️It’s a big game being played out there and the minute you start looking out of the box you invariably incur the tin foil or moon bat one liners. One things for sure we probably know far less than we could ever imagine.

What a Strong Dollar Means as Global Economic Worries Grow - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM The value of the U.S. dollar is the strongest it has been in a generation, devaluing other... Sterling is not alone and this has been building for ages. What’s new is the MSM running with it in standard push a crisis hysteria mode.

Couple of days milling on a beautiful location for a previous client and forum member, met another arbtalker onsite doing the tree work and assisting with the milling. Mixture of Oak, Beech , Ash and Spruce. Weather pretty much played ball and apart from the usual few bits of metal hidden here and there it was a cracking couple of days. The 6 tonner with a grab/rotator is an absolutely brilliant bit of kit 👍👍

A lot of the last few days is utterly bewildering quite frankly Mark. But what does really make me frustrated is all the lies and misleading renewables headlines, in particular Starmer today. The great hope of offshore wind and all the jobs it will create. No one seems to want to ask the questions regarding the fact that very nearly 100% of what you see around our coastline is built overseas and shipped here on foreign crewed and flagged vessels and again installed by foreign crewed and flagged vessels for predominantly overseas energy companies on absolutely hugely profitable long term supply deals. The talk of supply chain this and that is just a drop in the ocean. Do a bit of digging on the Dogger Bank project Mark ie where the manufacturing and installation profits and jobs have gone and you will see the utter lunacy and massive lost opportunities of it all.

No feud Mick, just a bit of banter, mind you, regardless of the exciting life you must have you still took the time to comment on it !!. Things that bore me I just sail on by eh rather than waste my time commenting 👍try it sometime.

It was a genuine reply 🤷‍♂️Whatever happened to a bit of dry piss taking humour 😞.

Well first off yeah I live up here and I’m actually planning on doing some milling down at another guy on here’s place when us working class types can align our schedules. I’m sure if you ask Trigger Andy he’d be ok with you popping by on the way past to Stonehaven. Mind you it would be tea out of a dirty mug and very uncouth conversation normally of a right of centre nature, but an hour or so with the underlings im sure will be tolerable to your lordship.

?? Bit more detail as to the reason you wanting to know where I work may elicit an answer or alternatively feel free to use the PM facility.

You are like clockwork Mull, another late night alcohol inspired belter, I’ll say one thing and that is your consistent either that or too shy to post sober. Im pleased you had a laugh bud, mind you what’s amusing when your pissed probably isn’t that funny at all the morning after. Talking about great guys etc, I’m over in Oban and Lochmaddy in next few months doing some work for CalMac, if your near any of the ferry terminals and dive ops are being carried out you should pop over for a coffee eh👍always good to meet up face to face with a forum user, rather than this billy big bollocks midnight keyboard shite.

You did !!!! 😂

I think you may be guilty of holding the words you write in posts in too high a regard, Not interested in winning any arguments or in reality give a shit about what you earn, I never commented on your boasting first time round or indeed was upset by it, as like I say you or your earnings mean absolutely nothing to me. As for my mentioning what I do that’s common knowledge to those whom know me on here 🤷‍♂️. I could easily talk about day rates but never have in the years I’ve been posting, I was always taught growing up not to be boastful or brag etc but 🤷‍♂️ we are all different. The point was show a bit of humility, not everyone is lucky enough to be in a position to welcome the interest rate hikes as you evidently do. Your “ I’ll let you have the last word statement” is utterly childish behaviour which seems to not fit in at all well with your self proclaimed extremely rare set of skills, ill take it that along with boastfulness is another part of your character make up.

One in five homeowners face being locked out of cheaper mortgage rates APPLE.NEWS If the Bank Rate hits 4.5pc as expected, bills will jump by 50pc It was in the context of people making light of the situation of those families who find themselves in the situation described within this article and many like it. Try and read it before you hit the bottle again, although admittedly it’s a weekend so I don’t hold out much hope of that.

Nothing majorly glamorous and weather was crap at times but a decent day milling some Oak and resawing some bloody hard free hand cut beams to client spec. Few decent chunks of steel ( including a cracking old square nail) unfortunately but a good try out for a batch of woodmizer 4/32 blades, impressed so far, very consistent and cleaned out some 1100mm wide slabbing cuts very well. Had to revert to tipped x cuts to chew through the steel on a few cuts 🤷‍♂️. Cheers for the job Andy 👍

Sadly you are right, there’s a lot wrong out there at the moment for sure, and the tinkering of successive governments regardless of which party is getting us nowhere. I always remember my late grandmother’s favourite saying “ contentment is better than hold” and she had very little in reality. The interest rate hikes as i alluded to earlier will hurt a lot more than they help.

Indeed it is 😂😂 You might be right about only working an hour what with the new interest rates etc

Are you content??

Lol razor sharp and as always on a fri night an insightful and well thought out post 🤔” ok maybe not eh” you on the sauce again it would seem Mull. So in your eyes being a prick is giving a **************** about those whom might be struggling as opposed to those whom are boasting about their day rates and welcoming interest rate hikes to presumably boost their savings. There’s me thinking you were an SNP socialist type too 🙄.