The biggest outhouse yet ....!

Plans to import hundreds of lorryloads of English excrement into
Scotland to produce "green energy crops" on the site of an old coal mine
has put Scottish noses out of joint particularly since Scottish Coal is
reported to have claimed - although the company hotly denies it - that
English stools are "higher quality" to those produced locally.

Over the next six months a subsidiary of Thames Water is to spread
48,000 tons of "biosolids" (as they are euphemistically described) one
metre deep over part of the old Dalquhandy open cast coal mine near the
Lanarkshire village of Coalburn insisting that they will help "enhance
the appearance and amenity of the area," although the Scottish National
Party has called on the importers to "take their crap homewards".

Fast growing willows will be planted on the sewage, which is in the form
of dry pellets, and then cropped for fuel.

But local people fear smells and health risks and are furious not to
have been consulted in advance. Local GP, Dr Sinclair Scott, said that
there was "real concern" in the area and said that the villagers had
only learned about the scheme "by chance".

MSPs took up the same themes in a debate on Thursday. Roseanna
Cunningham, the SNP environment spokesman, said: "The whole thing
stinks," and Chris Ballance a Green MSP held aloft "a properly composted
sewage sludge cake" produced in the south of Scotland, extolling its
advantages over the imported product.

Scottish Coal and Thames Water, taken aback by the row, spent the end of
last week trying to dismiss it as a storm in a lavatory bowl and are now
promising to use as much Scottish sewage as possible. They also said
that the process was approved by Friends of the Earth.

From: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=491528

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