Just a solo 'splore to keep things ticking over, more planned for later in the week, this has been reported a number of times before but I don't see any harm in putting my pictures up to cover anything that's been missed. I think I made access a lot more interesting than it needed to be, although I got there in the end.
History
Richborough Power Station was a 360MW Powergen owned station opened in 1962 and was originally coal fired, making use of the coal mines at Betteshanger, Tilmanstone, Snowdown and elsewhere in East Kent, burning 3 million tonnes of coal in 1971 before being converted for firing with oil. With rising prices of oil the plant was again converted, this time to run on Orimulsion, by 1990. This fuel, extracted from Bitumen in Venezuela was initially cheap and considered as a cleaner source of fuel.
This was soon discovered not to be the case. There was widespread concern when it was realised that sulphur pollution from the plant was causing acid rain, damage to local cars and crops led to multiple lawsuits being brought against Powergen, with the company settling out of court with a local farmer for the sum of six million pounds. Trials of Orimulsion in the U.K ceased immediately and the plant stopped generating in 1996.
According to a document given to Dover Council regarding a new access road:
Photos
Anyway on with the photos, it's pretty stripped out so the main focal points are the cooling towers. So here we go:
Cheers, as always constructive criticism is welcome, pm me if you want to come along, 13.
History
Richborough Power Station was a 360MW Powergen owned station opened in 1962 and was originally coal fired, making use of the coal mines at Betteshanger, Tilmanstone, Snowdown and elsewhere in East Kent, burning 3 million tonnes of coal in 1971 before being converted for firing with oil. With rising prices of oil the plant was again converted, this time to run on Orimulsion, by 1990. This fuel, extracted from Bitumen in Venezuela was initially cheap and considered as a cleaner source of fuel.
This was soon discovered not to be the case. There was widespread concern when it was realised that sulphur pollution from the plant was causing acid rain, damage to local cars and crops led to multiple lawsuits being brought against Powergen, with the company settling out of court with a local farmer for the sum of six million pounds. Trials of Orimulsion in the U.K ceased immediately and the plant stopped generating in 1996.
According to a document given to Dover Council regarding a new access road:
Photos
Anyway on with the photos, it's pretty stripped out so the main focal points are the cooling towers. So here we go:
Cheers, as always constructive criticism is welcome, pm me if you want to come along, 13.
