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Why has Canatxx chosen Preesall?
Canatxx came to the Wyre area over 19 years ago with plans to develop a new style of gas fired power station on the Fleetwood side of the River Wyre.
The site was quoted as being suitable for a number of reasons, one of which was the adjacency of salt deposits under the River Wyre which could probably be utilised to store gas for use in this power station.
It would appear from reading the papers and plans available at that time that the extent of the proposed gas storage was somewhat limited and there was no mention of it becoming a strategic national reserve or of there being a national need for this type of storage.
Canatxx have created this supposed ‘need' on this site for their own ends as we will show in our report to Lancashire County Council.
The power station project, for reasons other than the suitability of the proposed gas storage, was abandoned and indeed we understand that it was built elsewhere in the world. There are now revised plans for a different power station and a new gas pipeline from Wyre Gas Transportation Ltd and these plans do not appear to include Canatxx or any part of the Canatxx schemes in their remit, even though the Canatxx proposal was approved, the permit for which has now lapsed.
It is worth noting that whilst the presence of salt layers under the River Wyre had been identified by Canatxx as suitable for gas storage for their power station proposal, there appear to be no records or subsequent mention of any explorations at that time to identify the depth, extent or suitability of the permeability of these layers for gas storage.
At some point, Canatxx changed its focus to the creation of a truly massive gas storage warehouse in this same very limited bedded salt formation. A proposal far larger than any proposed elsewhere in the UK in far more substantial and suitable salt formations.