- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reconsider the consultation process on Forth Energy’s proposals for a biomass power station at Dundee given that many objections have not been acknowledged due to an invalid email address.
Answer
A decision was taken within the Energy Consents and Deployment Unit (ECDU) at the beginning of October 2010 to cease acknowledging representations in writing, due to the excessive costs involved. This meant that members of the public who submitted representations between the middle and end of September 2010, to the address energyconsents@scotland.gsi.gov.uk, or in writing, did not receive an acknowledgment.
The address energyconsents@scotland.gsi.gov.uk is not invalid, members of the public were asked to direct representations to the dedicated email address dundeebiomass@scotland.gsi.gov.uk to allow easier collation of these responses and to ensure they received the automatic acknowledgement. All representations received to either address have now been collated and logged.
There is no requirement under legislation to acknowledge, either in writing or electronically, representations received.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how long it will take to shut down the BP Forties pipeline system manually if it is damaged during construction of the Forth Replacement Crossing.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40177 on 14 March 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Transport Scotland has a business continuity programme in place to manage the risks in the event of the BP Forties pipeline system being damaged during construction of the Forth Replacement Crossing.
Answer
Transport Scotland will continue to operate in the event of any damage to the pipeline.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans have been put in place to carry out routine or other maintenance to the BP Forties pipeline system where the Southern Approach Road crosses it; who will bear the cost, and whether a risk assessment has been carried out.
Answer
The works undertaken during the Forth Replacement Crossing works will ensure further routine and other maintenance on the pipeline does not disrupt the Southern Approach Roads. Any future work on the pipeline after completion of the road will be carried out within BP''s risk assessments and at BP''s cost.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in relation to the BP Forties pipeline system, Transport Scotland investigated whether it would be safer to move the Southern Approach Road to link directly from the new Forth Bridge on the west side of Dundas Castle to the M9 at Winchburgh and, if so, for what reason the report of that investigation was not made available as part of the environmental statement for the Forth Crossing Act 2011.
Answer
During 2008, Transport Scotland considered a number of alternative options for the southern connecting roads. An assessment of the options and the reasoning for their rejection is provided in the DMRB Stage 2 Corridor Report. The location of the BP pipeline was considered in this assessment. This is outwith the remit of the Environmental Statement.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of fire risk is posed by construction work on the Forth Replacement Crossing being carried out close to the BP Forties pipeline system.
Answer
The fire risk to the Forties Pipeline has been assessed as minimal in relation to the Forth Replacement Crossing works.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the contingency liability for BP has been capped at £100 million if the Forties pipeline system is damaged during the construction of the Forth Replacement Crossing.
Answer
The sum is typical of these types of arrangements in the Oil and Gas industry and was arrived at following negotiation with BP. The number represents the maximum potential liability under the Agreement and BP will bear any losses which exceed that amount.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an automatic shutdown is in place in the event of the BP Forties pipeline system being damaged during construction of the Forth Replacement Crossing and, if so, how long it takes to operate.
Answer
On detection of a loss of flow, pipeline pumps will automatically shutdown and isolation valves will close. A manual shutdown of the pipeline may also be initiated following detection of a leak at site. Shutdown would take approximately two minutes.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what BP’s estimate is of lost revenue in the event of damage to the BP Forties pipeline system during construction of the Forth Replacement Crossing.
Answer
Financial information relating to those costs is commercially confidential and cannot be released.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what volume of oil would be spilt if the BP Forties pipeline system were ruptured during construction of the Forth Replacement Crossing.
Answer
While the volume has been calculated for designing suitable mitigation measures it would be inappropriate to release this information.
