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New 'green' energy station turns a few cheeks red online, while there's some usual trams debate and pie news too

Biomass power station in Leith > good idea. Shipping in woodchip to fuel it from America > bad idea. Madness, you might say.

This project is a complete joke. Building an industrial power plant in the heart of a city is complete madness. Shipping wood thousands of miles to burn it is madness. Building a power plant with no road infrastructure is madness.

Death

You would have to have heart of stone not to laugh and laugh and laugh at this! Is there anything, and I mean anything at all, that the greenies have done that has not turned out to be a shambles, a disaster, a reversal of what they claimed, and a burden on society. Truly, green is the new stupid.

El Franko

If you're going to build a bio-mass plant and you can't source sustainable woodchip locally, then it has to come from somewhere else. I don't see the big deal here, or why this give the usual rabid anti-green agenda any ammunition.

JFW, edinburgh

Tram firm Bilfinger is also facing a tough times as it could lose its contract.

Long overdue – this contractor has been at it form the start and the sooner a better organised outfit can be brought in the sooner the project will get back on the rails.

dyon gollins's back, Den Haag

I wonder how much they are going to sue TIE for and how much extra changing contractor mid-project is going to cost us? New contractors will be holding the city to ransom now and the work needs to be completed.

Ecto

This is the most peculiar "fixed price contract" I have ever heard of. However, it coincides with the bizarre assurances of "on time and on budget" that we had for countless months when the project was clearly neither! If TIE try to get rid of the contractor, then I should imagine the whole thing will end up in court where it could take years to resolve and meanwhile not a great deal could be done to progress the scheme.

Sarah B, Edinburgh

Now you can eat all the pies at Tynecastle, we told you yesterday. Hearts became the first club in Scotland to sell low-fat pies.

No wonder people didn't taste the difference. It's not a "low-fat" pie at all. It's a pie with saturated fat reduced by 20 per cent. In other words, it still has 80 per cent of its saturated fat, and more unsaturated fat than it did previously!

Duncan in Edinburgh

Well, there goes that idea then, doesn't it?