Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal
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Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal is a campaign against the proposed Oil Terminal near Whitehead, on Belfast Lough. LCC Group (GO Petrol, Click Oil) propose a major fossil-fuel import and distribution facility. We have initiated a legal challenge against the Northern Ireland Department of Infrastructure for a lack of regional oversight of the planning process. We are also planning action against the local council (Mid & East Antrim Borough Council) who have awarded planning permission to this damaging development. We are raising funds to enable us to take forward the legal challenges against the Department for Infrastructure and Mid & East Antrim Borough Council.
We believe this development needs to be stopped because:
- It negatively impacts on Northern Ireland’s ability to achieve Net Zero by 2050 as required by the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 and the required interim carbon reduction targets for 2030 and 2040.
- It creates noise, odour and light pollution.
- It creates risks to the health and wellbeing of people living in Whitehead and along the A2 route into Belfast.
- It generates 300 extra road vehicle movements a day, most of which will be HGV road tankers. Three schools (Eden Primary School, Carrickfergus Model Primary School and Belfast High School) are situated along the route. A recent report by the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health called for child health to be a central theme in all climate change policy decisions. The planning system is supposed to prioritise promoting health and well-being but this proposal does neither.
- It creates risks to the integrity of Belfast Lough ecosystem including red and amber list bird species, sea mammals, kelp forests and seabed invertebrates. An oil spill or explosion would have impacts on Belfast Lough and beyond.
- It compromises the historic asset of the adjacent White Harbour.
- The site is not under a strategic harbour authority. Arrangements will need to be made to ensure proper management of vessels using the facility.
- It will have a negative impact on tourism.
- Northern Ireland already has four oil terminals. There is no strategic need for another one.
Fundraising team (3)
Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal
Organizer
Northern Ireland
Clodagh Miskelly
Team member
Hilary McCollum
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