TAP - I am suspicious about this fire. How could it get to the point that a member of the public was first to alert the Fire Service? Was the alarm system deactivated or overriden to allow the fire to get established? The fracking agenda requires the government to claim that power cuts will become necessary to justify destroying Britain's countryside. What better way to do that than to take out operational power stations. Britain is under attack by our own government.
BBC -
Half of an Oxfordshire power station that supplies a million homes with electricity will remain "non-operational" indefinitely after a huge fire, its owners said.
At its height, 25 fire engines and about 100 firefighters tackled the blaze at Didcot B power station.
The blaze began in a cooling tower at about 20:00 BST on Sunday and spread to three others because of strong winds.
Owner RWE npower said it did not know how long the closure would be in place.
"It is too early to give any definitive estimate of how long this will be," the company spokesperson said.
The full extent of the damage is not yet known
Dan Meredith, from RWE npower, said electricity supplies would not be affected.
"Power stations come on and off the grid quite a lot and we're very sustainable, we can carry on."
The company said it was too early to say how much damage had been caused.
In a statement, National Grid said the blaze had "no operational impact" on the electricity system.
The fire was extinguished at about midnight and no-one was injured.
A thermal imaging camera shows where the fire took hold
Simon Furlong, assistant chief fire officer, said three fire engines were still at the gas-fired station on Monday morning and he expected them to be there for at least the next 24 hours.
"This was a serious fire which began in one of Didcot B power station's cooling towers and spread to three other cooling towers," he said.
"I expect that it will take some time to determine the reasons behind what actually happened."
Deputy chief fire officer Nathan Travis said an investigation into the cause of the blaze was taking place and said the area affected by the blaze had been "very badly damaged".
Energy supplies were not affected by the blaze, the station's owner RWE npower said
The fire began in a cooling tower and spread to three others because of strong winds
Three cooling towers were seriously damaged by the blaze
The major blaze at Didcot B power station has been extinguished, the fire service said on Monday
Dave Bray, the fire service's incident commander, said: "We have extinguished the fire, although there are hot spots that are remaining within the structure.
"It is now the challenge of getting to these and dampening them down."
Mr Bray said firefighters faced "significant challenges" during the blaze because the cooling towers were predominantly made of wood.
An automatic alarm system alerted the fire service, but the first call was actually from a member of the public at Great Western Park in Didcot, he said.
The fire service said the blaze was not being treated as arson or a terrorist incident.
Georgina Miles, who lives near the power station, said: "We saw the flames basically licking the top of the small cooling towers. It was pretty dramatic. There was a lot of damage."
They really think we are stupid !! When they are proving it is they who are the idiots and showing their insanity. They are losing the plot and waking everyone up. They are panicking and making some really silly moves now. Not long before the country turns on them and brings the stocks back. start saving those GM vegetables they will be put to good use. Haha.
ReplyDeleteI don't know a lot about cooling towers, as far as I Know those towers are to blast the steam into the air.
ReplyDeleteThis gets the steam cloud high into the air.
At a nearby Power station the locals prefer to have low cloud, rather than the wail of the blowers.
I think we are being told a load of tripe, the power station can run without the blowers.
Looks well for the hack's though.
Th jews can commit mass genocide in palestine and nothing is done
ReplyDeletebut if you criticise the jews you get sent to prison
read this
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/20/man-jailed-antisemitic-tweet-labour-mp
11th Aug 2014
ReplyDeleteEDF shuts down two UK nuclear plants amid safety fears ...
www.telegraph.co.uk › Finance › News by Sector › Energy
http://news.sky.com/story/1356667/didcot-fire-puts-the-squeeze-on-energy-supplies
The huge fire which swept through Didcot Power Station has increased the likelihood of an energy supply crisis this winter, according to analysts.
Half of the gas-fuelled plant - which supplies a million homes - will remain out of action indefinitely putting further pressure on the UK's already squeezed electricity network.
The blaze is the third fire at a UK power station this year following similar fires at the Ironbridge plant in February and at Ferrybridge in July.
Together with spine cracking problems at Heysham and Hartlepool nuclear power stations, some 4.3 gigawatts (seven percent) of the UK's conventional and nuclear energy plant has been taken offline.
"Another one or two events such as the fire at Didcot could cause a serious security of supply event and a probable surge in wholesale prices.
The Guardian Greenies Gleefully Report
While Didcot B burned, renewable energy powered on
Fire at Oxfordshire power station is a reminder of the energy security risks of centralised fossil fuel power and that all energy sources suffer from intermittency
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/oct/20/while-didcot-b-burned-renewable-energy-powered-on
The author of the Guardian article reveals his flawed and fallacious arguments in the comments sections.
ReplyDeleteLessSure
20 October 2014 2:49pm
But nobody's talking about "say, one turbine in a wind farm,".
Surely if the wind doesn't blow, they all go down....
DamianCarrington LessSure
20 October 2014 3:05pm
with respect, you are missing my point balancing the grid is all about knowing what electricity you will need when wind is forecastable - fires and jellyfish plagues shutting down big power plants are not
DC of course choses to neglect the unpredictable nature of the British weather re both solar and wind power. He also omits the hours of darkness no solar at all. That said having spent some months in Greece where every building has very effective and almost free solar powered hot water during the warmer months solar should not be neglaced.
http://nuclear-news.net/category/2-world/europe/uk-europe-2-world-area/
ReplyDeleteBritain’s secret nuclear weapons deal with USA
secret-dealsflag-UKFlag-USANuclear weapons deal with US renewed in secret, UK confirms Richard Norton-Taylor Tuesday 21 October 2014 theguardian.com• UK tables amendments to Mutual Defence Agreement
• Proper scrutiny and Commons debate needed The British government has just published amendments updating a treaty that goes to the heart of the UK’s special relationship with the US.
They relate to the Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA) first signed in 1958, which, according to the government, enables the UK and the US “nuclear warhead communities to collaborate on all aspects of nuclear deterrence including nuclear warhead design and manufacture”.
One amendment refers to potential threats from “state or non-state actors”. But the amendments are for the most part arcane and their significance cannot be understood in the absence of information which is kept secret.
The MDA does not have to be debated or voted on in parliament, as I have remarked before. Though the agreement is incorporated in US law, it has no legal status in Britain.
Yet the matters covered by the treaty, which is renewed only at 10 year intervals, are hugely important. Successive British governments have made clear a proper debate on the issues involved would not be welcome.
“A debate on the renewal of the MDA would be used by some as an opportunity to raise wider questions concerning the possible renewal of the nuclear deterrent…and our obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty,” notes an internal MoD paper, dated 2004. The paper was released only earlier this year through a freedom of information act request by the independent Nuclear Information Service……….
Kate Hudson, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) says the UK-US agreement flew in the face Britain’s commitments as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“It is appalling that David Cameron is signing secretive nuclear deals behind Parliament’s back. In no other area of government would such a sinister sidestepping of democratic process be tolerated.” http://www.theguardian.com/world/defence-and-security-blog/2014/oct/20/nuclear-weapons-uk-us
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn't believe or worry too much about what you read in the Guardian with circulation in free fall, down from 350,000 to 180,000, between early 2008 and October 2014. It's a similar story with the other mendacious and malevolent Jewish owned rags:
The UK newspaper the Sun has seen its circulation drop from 3.2m to 2.02m.
The Daily Mail is down from 2.2m to 1.7m
The Daily Telegraph is down from from 850,000 to 505,000.
Typical Daily Mail Front Page | The Poke.
The Times is down from 620,000 to 400,000.
The Guardian is down from 350,000 to 180,000.
The Independent is down from 230,000 to 63,000.
The Financial Times is down from 450,000 to 217,000.
Source: http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/media-exposed-circulations-drop.html
Regarding the Guardian's 'story', I have my doubts about the whole piece. Probably a total fabrication:-
Garron Helm, 21, from Litherland, north of Liverpool, tweeted a picture of the MP with a Holocaust yellow star superimposed on her forehead, with the hashtag “Hitler was right”. The tweet, which referred to Berger as a ‘‘communist jewess”, read: “You can always trust a Jew to show their true colours eventually.”
When police searched Helm’s home they found [the usual] Nazi memorabilia including an SS flag and flags from the British neo-Nazi group National Action.
YAAAAAWN... The usual MO. No doubt they would have found the stolen Auschwitz sign as well if yet another one had been stolen (removed) to order in yet another Zionist spooks false flag non event. Does Garron Helm even exist? Is he yet another pseudonym actor paid to do a couple of weeks porridge? Certain it is that some of the 52 so-called fatalities of ZOG's 7/7 were never even born as no Birth registration exists.
Question: When the ridiculously fictitious number of dead at Auschwitz was revised down from 4 million to a still ridiculous 1.5 million, why was the ridiculous 6 million figure not also revised down to a still ridiculous 3.5 million? I think we all know the answer to that one.