Felicity Fair Thompson, Sandown:

This CO2 pipeline project seeks to lay a 60cm diameter steel ‘underground’ pipeline from the Fawley site out to sea, by cutting a trench across one of three proposed land ‘corridors’, two choices across the Isle of Wight, or the third between Fawley and New Milton.

Along the selected corridor, Exon Mobil will be looking for approval to clear a 50m wide route of all topsoil to provide the working space in which to install a steel pipe 60cm in diameter.

The need to clear such a wide swathe of land in order to construct and lay the pipe is dictated by the proposed method of construction - pipe sections would need to be brought in by road transport, off-loaded and welded into a continuous pipeline in-situ.

Alongside this, heavy machinery will be digging a trench at least 2m deep into which the welded sections of pipeline will be lowered as a continuous process by a coordinated set of plant machinery.

NO!

Basic explanation of the technology is needed to prove this proposed pipeline carries the claimed significant env/co2 which produces benefits.

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Proof is needed to show this is not just some overhyped pipeline and is not just a propaganda tool to give the impression of doing something? And where is the mitigation, especially environmental? Where is the proof of improvement? What about bio-diversity net gain (BNG)?

No details have been given about environmental management, betterment, or even what is going to happen to all of the spoil waste from the trenches?

BNG (Bio-diversity net gain), ie not just replacing habitat, but significantly improving it - and this is now a key component of the planning system. There is no mention of BNG anywhere in the literature.

There is NO explanation of why pumping CO2 directly into the oceans is any better for the environment.

The tunnel pipe will cross from Gurnard, through the beautiful waters at Calbourne Mill all the way across to our other coast.

What about the danger of digging under the crumbling cliffs on the south west coast dinosaur beaches? Store CO2 under the Channel? Under the sea? Is that really any better for the planet?

And what about our Island countryside, farming, food production, the water that comes up from really deep down in the chalk?

Drop a stone down Carisbrooke Castle's old well and wait to hear it hit the water.

A Southern Water pipe runs horizontally across the Island from near the Needles through to Sandown. What happens if that is damaged where the proposed CO2 pipe and that water pipe ‘cross swords’ in the middle?

Say NO to damaging the beautiful Isle of Wight.