NEWS that Siemens is to construct a wind turbine manufacturing plant at Hull docks will be generally welcomed in the area. BUT… and there is a BUT raised in this article on HU12 Wind turbine manufacturing plant will bring local benefits…
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I’m disappointed that a Hedon councillor should have reservations regarding traffic when a company is bringing much-needed employment to our area! With that sort of outlook we should try to have the docks and Saltend relocated so we can live in a traffic (and employment) -free area! If the council would let me keep pigs and a horse and cart in my Inmans Estate garden we could really get back to the 19th century! Oh, the dynamism of local government!
Hedon Town Councillor Gordon Thurstan was quoted in the Hull Daily Mail yesterday (20th Jan 2011) regarding this. He said: