MSP Jackson Carlaw urges East Ren councillors who greenlit controversial battery storage site to resign

by mrjohnnymac18

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  3. Oh yeah we don’t want battery storage, apparently.

    Anyone know why these fucking idiots rail against everything good? Honestly wish they’d just get out of the way.

  5. Great, I can repost the poem I wrote from when Carlaw was Tory Leader!

    Jackson Carlaw

    Got a baw

    Stuck in a wee pig pen.

    Alister Jack

    Gie’d it a whack

    And knocked it oot

    Again

  6. >More than 3,000 people have signed a petition calling for the planning approval to be overturned. It states: “Our voices have been ignored and the decision does not reflect the best interest of those who call this area home.”

    They dont use electricity then?

    Near as I can work out they want to build it here, just south of the woods.

    [https://maps.app.goo.gl/LjYfzRfWw3iMyLJU9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/LjYfzRfWw3iMyLJU9)

    [https://ercbuildingstandards.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/buildingstandards/files/04292C08E08081B655182876EBD5DFF4/pdf/2025_0043_TP-Revised_Site_Layout-996520.pdf](https://ercbuildingstandards.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/buildingstandards/files/04292C08E08081B655182876EBD5DFF4/pdf/2025_0043_TP-Revised_Site_Layout-996520.pdf)

    Got no strong opinion of the subject but it always annoys me when the controversies come up and the articles dont even indicate where it will be to let us make out own minds up.

  7. Seems like a small few stoked up stupid objections to it. If folk want cheaper electricity we need battery storage, calling for resignations is daft and shows how much the Tory party is funded by the fossil fuel and nuclear industry..

  8. Wonder if the standards commission will have something to say about this?

    Planning is a legal matter, not a political one. Councillors act as independent quasi-judicators. Calling for them to resign over a planning matter is very dodgy.

  10. A tory complaining about things, what is new. They (alongside labour) are opposition for the sake of opposition. Nothing to offer.

  12. 1. We want all the things now!
    2. No, I shouldn’t have to pay for it.
    2. No, not near me. It’ll reduce the value of my house.

    Same shit. Every time.

  13. > Local MSP Jackson Carlaw, Conservative, has said the greenbelt should be protected and the proposal is “intrusive and inappropriate”.

    >He also said there were “very serious concerns and real-life examples of fires that have erupted at battery plants because of the lithium-ion batteries”.

    Do some people not know they carry around these batteries around in their pockets every day?

    There is a proposal for one near me, and also a separate plan to build a solar farm next to it. Both have instantly been met with the local Karen’s telling everyone to vote against these proposals on Facebook groups and such. There reasoning is that it’s “dangerous”, and then usually cite fires from recycling centres as evidence. Everyone seems to believe them too. It’s so stupid.

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