Dear Supporters,
This is David Parkin — CEO of Peak Cluster and Director at Progressive Energy — confidently telling the Liverpool Echo that “local communities do not have a mechanism to say no to this.”
https://www.tiktok.com/@liverpoolecho/video/7633148515648064771
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/peak-cluster-boss-hits-out-33828955
In the Echo article, published after last week’s disastrous “engagement sessions” at the Floral Pavilion, Parkin suggests that public opposition is simply the result of “misinformation.” He even described members of the public at the event as “arrogant and dismissive.”
Perhaps Parkin’s confidence, assertiveness, and approach to “engagement” comes from his time on the Sloan Fellows Program in Innovatiiverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/peak-cluster-boss-hits-out-33828955on and Global Leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Unfortunately, empathy, transparency, and genuine understanding of peoples concerns do not appear to have been part of the curriculum.
It’s hardly surprising that the public do not trust him or the Peak Cluster team. When the original consultation launched in January, they provided minimal information and chose to benignly describe the huge industrial complex proposed for Meols as an “AGI”
Perhaps they hoped to slip this project through under the radar, just as many feel has happened with HyNet. And perhaps the real reason people oppose the project is because only after persistent pressure from residents did they finally admit the truth: this will be a 300m x 180m, 4–5 storey industrial compression plant with a 50m vent stack, operating 24 hours a day with lights, noise, and vibration.
People may also be opposed because the project was sold as “vital” to saving the cement industry — yet it is now becoming clear that the real purpose is to turn the Wirral into a CO₂ exhaust pipe and Morecambe Bay into a dumping ground for Europe.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, and the public can see that billions are being invested not to save four cement factories but to create a European CO₂ dump Parkin is trying a different tack. He is now trying to claim that selling the Morecambe Bay Sea bed to heavy polluters around Europ somehow save taxpayers money.
Interestingly, the Public Accounts Committeee last year reported that these CCS projects were very risky investments for the Government and were not set to bring any benefits to the Tax Payer. Indeed, the Cement Factories will need tax-payer subsidies of an estimated £300million a year to use the Peak Cluster pipeline.
So perhaps Dave Parkin could finally provide clear details about the expected funding model (we know he will have some idea how this is likely to be funded, and how much money he and his partners will make). So far his explanations have been contradictory, evasive, and, as many would say, “the math ain’t mathing.”
Just remember when you watch Dave Parkin speak so assertively and confidently, the number of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects that Mr Parkin and his team have currently delivered and are now operating successfully is……zero!
WE MUST STOP THIS PEAK CLUSTER MADNESS
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