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Clydeport: the Loch Striven campaign goes on
And For Argyll has started the year as it means to go on. The For Argyll Awards 2009 introduced two new special awards: the ‘For Argyll’ Award and the ‘Not For Argyll’ Award, given by us, respectively,...
View ArticleHidden Europe magazine celebrates the Not For Argyll Awards
The unique European magazine for the independent and curious traveller, seeking secrets, surprises and cultural texture below the surface, Hidden Europe, has picked up on our Not For Argyll...
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Bill Clinton asks Dunoon’s John McAslan to oversee Haiti’s rebuild
Dunoon-born and now London-based, international architect John McAslan says he feels that it’s important to give something back. He walks the talk.The John McAslan Family Trust is a vehicle through...
View ArticleDubai World asset sale includes Inchcape Shipping Services of Campbeltown origin
Istithmarh, the investment wing of £14BN debt-laden Dubai World, the world’s largest independent marine management company and owner of the QE2 – now also likely to be sold, has already begun the sale...
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Maersk Mission Loch Striven 2010 meets CBBC Mission 2110
Driving down the east side of a largely frozen Loch Eck, the mooring buoys at Coylet – normally living things in a tug-of-war with the surface water, lie like litter on the ice – more jetsam than...
View ArticleSouth Cowal Community Council public meeting on Clydeport and Loch Striven
South Cowal is the Community Council with all the action these days.Within weeks of hosting – with marked success in a very well organised and chaired event on Argyll and Bute Council’s proposed sale...
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Peel Ports Consortium must not be allowed to buy Forth Ports
As we have been predicting, Clydeport’s owner, John Whittaker and Peel Ports, the holding company for the his significant portfolio of ports, are bidding to buy Forth Ports, They lead the Northstream...
View ArticleMaersk, Council and Alan Reid to attend South Cowal Public Meeting on...
South Cowal Community Council, the very model of how community participation in local government is now designed to work, is holding its second public meeting on 19th March at 7.30pm in Toward Memorial...
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Public Meeting on Clydeport and Maersk ships in Loch Striven
This public meeting – on 19th March – was called by petition from the residents of South Cowal and, with scant attention from some of the senior invitees, it became not a dispirited session but...
View ArticleForth Ports still avoiding the bear’s hug of Peel Port’s Northstream
We have counselled against Forth Ports being allowed to fall to the predators of the Northstream Consortium. The group is led by Clydeport’s owner, Peel Ports and with the infrastructure fund managers,...
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And then there were none… Maersk Bentonville and Brooklyn leave Loch Striven
The first of Maersk’s six laid up container ships to leave Loch Striven, Sealand Performance, was dragged off reluctantly to her final working voyage to the knackers yard on a day when it looked as if...
View ArticleHunterston coal station proposal: never forget Ayrshire Power is Peel Ports...
In the proposal to build a carbon capture coal fired power station at Hunterston, ‘Ayrshire Power’ the company now fronting the punt has run into a broad spectrum and powerful opposition whose members...
View ArticleSNH response to proposed multifuel power station for Hunterston
According to advice from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), the proposed multi-fuelled power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire (facing Argyll’s Cowal peninsula), will cause significant damage to a...
View ArticleScottish Government ignores valuable Crown Estate and slips in carbon storage
Yesterday the Scottish Government opened consultation on proposals to ensure that Scotland and its local communities will benefit from renewable and low carbon energy developmentsAll fine and dandy.But...
View ArticleCoalition against new coal fired station at Hunterston meets Inquiry Reporters
Representatives of the coalition campaigning to prevent the building of a new coal fired power station at Hunterson will today attend a meeting with the Reporters appointed by Scottish Ministers to...
View ArticleJOIN AND WATCH Save Clyde Coastguard Red Flare Flotilla – 31st August
A red flare signals distress and need of assistance.Clyde Coastguard is, for good reason, distressed and in serious need of assistance.The specialist Clyde Coastguard station – the third largest in the...
View ArticleTimetable for Save Clyde Coastguard’s ‘Flare Friday’ Red Flare Flotilla
(Updated below on political supporters) This Friday, 31st August, Save Clyde Coastguard is holding a dramatic demonstration to enable the naval, shipping and leisure sailing worlds and the widespread...
View ArticleRIP Clyde Coastguard
Today Clyde Coastguard ceases to exist in a move described by the Transport Select Committee as financially driven and that has seen first Forth Coastguard and now Clyde closed for good.This has...
View ArticleCoal boat adrift off Ireland since 1st February now tugged into the Clyde
For maritime affairs aficionados like urselves, reader, Mike Johnston, reported yesterday morning [12th February] that three tugs were just then anchoring the 175,000 tonne DW coal boat, Cape Elise,...
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Clyde RIver ferry: Business Scotland interview with CalMac’s Martin Dorchester
A generally interesting recent programme on Scotland and the shipping industry in the Business Scotland series on BBC Radio Scotland with Douglas Fraser, drew its expert interviewees from the Scottish...
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