I heard a piece on Sunday Live today from Radio Scotland that these Towers from an old Power Station in Scotland were demolished yesterday. They actually had a recoding of the sound of the explosion and the towers coming down. They are fifty years old and are a local landmark. Planes and migratory birds used therm as navigational aids. I found it really interesting that the BBC was going around asking the local people who had turned up to see the towers demolished, what they thought about them. Most were really sorry to see them go. One said that he wished that they would have kept them, even though they had de-commissioned the power station. Intriguing how the industrial landscape becomes part of people's lives and they are sorry to see their landscape change, even though I'm sure lots of people thought they were an eyesore at first. People should bear that in mind when they are objecting to all these windfarms that Gordon Brown wants to build.
The towers do look rather cool in the image above, courtesy of the BBC.
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I used to see the red warning lights on these towers and the steam rising from them illuminated by moonlight as I passed by them at night on the Edinburgh-Euston sleeper trains. The railway passes quite a few miles from Chapelcross, so the cooling towers were visible from quite a distance.
As for the anti-wind-farm protesters, I don't get their argument at all. Given the choice between a nuclear power station and a wind farm, which would they rather have? Wind-turbines may be visually-intrusive, but at least we won't have to worry about cancer, genetic deformities and contamination that will last for hundreds of thousands of years.
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