Not content with fighting off absurd proposals for a Biomass plant in Leith Docks which would have to import the fuel from America (which, incidentally, they now have a Facebook campaign page for), they've been putting up with a sewage plant which emits noxious odours.
Indeed, it has gotten so bad that the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has been looking into what was downplayed as an "intermittent odour". Leith Links Residents' Association calls it
a cloud of hydrogen sulphide – the smell of rotten eggs.I wonder if the smell is worse in winter since the treatment is "less vigorous" then?
The Association has now got to the point where they are instructing lawyers to seek compensation for local residents and possibly banning the plant from emitting any noxious fumes.
There is a way they could get ongoing compensation, though, and it's perhaps something that they can look at if the biomass plant gets the go-ahead as well. I'm told that some residents in the Craigentinny area of Edinburgh get a reduction in their Council Tax to compensate them for the 24 hour noise from the railway depot there.
Could the good people of Leith be bribed into putting up with the smell of rotten eggs?
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If only the smell was just that of rotten eggs. But it's not. There's no mistaking the smell for anything other than what it is.
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