Docks Oil Tanks Coming Down

_Whimsical_

Have a good look next time you're passing because by May they'll be the stuff of "Galway back in the rare ole times" youtube videos. They're pretty damned ugly but they're kind of a landmark too.

http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/10419

ronnie3585

Fantastic news to see the dirty b*stards gone. However, I'll won't believe it when I see it.

you wont believe it when you see it?

Zzippy

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Fantastic news to see the dirty b*stards gone. However, I'll won't believe it when I see it.

Seeing is believing!

galvianlord

its gonna be awful tight!

50 days exactly until the boats arrive.....

Seemingly they take them down, cover the ground in some special membrane, then you can party like its 1999 over all those contaminants....

seems a bit odd to me....but hey....

ScumLord

That land must be worth a fortune, even in these troubled times. It's about time too.

pseudonym1

galvianlord wrote: »

its gonna be awful tight!

50 days exactly until the boats arrive.....

Seemingly they take them down, cover the ground in some special membrane, then you can party like its 1999 over all those contaminants....

seems a bit odd to me....but hey....

Yep!

Plus with such mongs planning and co-ordinating the project.. something will invariably go wrong /be delayed/ messed up!

bcloh

Will these tanks coming down not confuse the poor birds of galway. I see a GAAW case here. :D:D

BillyGoatGruff

pseudonym1 wrote: »

Yep!

Plus with such mongs planning and co-ordinating the project.. something will invariably go wrong /be delayed/ messed up!

Who you calling a mong? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::P

pseudonym1

BillyGoatGruff wrote: »

Who you calling a mong? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::P

The people who didn't move the tanks or get them moved before now!

ronnie3585

Deleted User wrote: »

you wont believe it when you see it?

Ha, meant to say I won't believe it until it see it.

Me england no very good last yesterday night:o

Seriously, given the special class of retard in city hall I'll be very surprised if the tanks are gone in time.

Storm 10

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Ha, meant to say I won't believe it until it see it.

Me england no very good last yesterday night:o

Seriously, given the special class of retard in city hall I'll be very surprised if the tanks are gone in time.

Nothing to do with City Hall its up to the Oil Company to remove them its a private site so no City Hall involvement

BillyGoatGruff

pseudonym1 wrote: »

The people who didn't move the tanks or get them moved before now!

Cool.....cool...... Just askin' :pac::pac::pac::pac:

_Whimsical_

I think it will happen. Gerry Barrets company has purchased a new oil storage site and agreed a deal with Topaz to move all their oil storage to the site.This they say is going to dramatically speed up the process of removing the tanks. He has a vested interest in getting the tanks down as in recent times legislation was passed that prevents development of areas within a certain range of oil tanks and similar sites.That legislation was one of the grounds on which his efforts to get planning permission to redevelope Taffes in town initially failed last year.If the tanks issue is out of the way he's expected to be able to go ahead with much further commercial development in town.

Also as he has so much money tied up in hotels in Galway I'd imagine he'll want the main area of Galway likely to get any international media coverage from the race to be looking as well as possible.Giant rusty oil tanks don't exactly say "Come here for a 5 star luxuary hotel stay".He's paying €37million for the pleasure of holding the reigns at the new oil barrel site so I'd say he'll be intent on getting a quick result that will serve his many ends best.

pseudonym1

chilly wrote: »

I think it will happen. Gerry Barrets company has purchased the site which they say is going to speed the process up dramatically. He has a vested interest in getting the tanks down as in recent times legislation was passed that prevents development of areas within a certain range of oil tanks and similar sites.That legislation was one of the grounds on which his efforts to get planning permission to redevelope Taffes in town initially failed last year.If the tanks issue is out of the way he's expected to be able to go ahead with much further commercial development in town.

Also as he has so much money tied up in hotels in Galway I'd imagine he'll want the main area of Galway likely to get any international media coverage from the race to be looking as well as possible.Giant rusty oil tanks don't exactly say "Come here for a 5 star luxuary hotel stay".He's paying €37million for the pleasure of holding the reigns at the oil barrel site so I'd say he'll be intent on getting a quick result that will serve his many ends best.

Thanks Good to know - he must own half the town at this stage! When did he purchase it do ya know?

galvianlord

but i thought he bought the new tanks not the ones to be torn down? topaz must still own the old ones so its their responsibility. what he did just speeded things up are they never would have got down in time for the race?


From galwaynews.ie

BUSINESSMAN Gerry Barrett has purchased a second oil terminal, which will pave the way for the dismantling of the oil tanks at the Docks in time for the Volvo Ocean Race.

The surprise move by Edward Holdings, one of Mr Barrett’s companies, announced late last night should see Topaz Ireland move from its current terminal on Bóthar Na Long in Galway Harbour to the Enwest Oil Terminal in the Galway Harbour Enterprise Park in the next few weeks.

Topaz, the firm that owns Statoil and Shell, declined to confirm its intention to decommission and demolish the oil tanks, however an announcement on this is expected to be made in the next 48 hours.

A major shareholder in Topaz, Gerry Barrett released astatement to the Sentinel revealing that his company had finalised the acquisition of Enwest, which meant Topaz now had a new site to move into.

Mr Barrett said the purchase was critically important to the future development of Galway City and the West and would stimulate investment in the regeneration of a major area of the inner city of Galway.

“Furthermore this acquisition of Enwest will lead to the acceleration of the process whereby the oil tanks at the Topaz Oil Facility could be decommissioned and demolished,” he said.

_Whimsical_

pseudonym1 wrote: »

Thanks Good to know - he must own half the town at this stage! When did he purchase it do ya know?

I presume he secured the deal in the last few days. I don't have time to google properly atm. This article appeared in the Independent on Wednesday. It looks like he will own most of the town soon enough alright though!Nice to able to just buy up things and move obstacles about that stand in your way like that. It's probably a really good move for Galway as a whole though so fair play to him.

By DONAL BUCKLEY


Wednesday April 01 2009

Gerry Barrett's Edward Holdings has agreed a deal to purchase an oil terminal on 6.5 acres in the Galway Harbour Enterprise Park (GHEP) from developers, Enda O'Coineen and Richard Walsh, for around €37m.

The deal will also prove a key step in the redevelopment of a strategic area of Galway city centre as Edward Holdings has also agreed a deal with Topaz Oil and other oil distributors to move their oil importing activities to the newly acquired terminal.

Mr Barrett's purchase is known as the Enwest Oil Terminal in GHEP. Furthermore the Topaz move will allow the removal of the Topaz tanks in the harbour and thus free up a key area of the harbour to facilitate the Galway Volvo Ocean Race which will arrive in Galway on 23 May for a two week festival.

Embargo

It will also facilitate the removal of the Seveso safety embargo on developments within 400 metres of the 2.5 acre Topaz site thus allowing the regeneration of parts of the city centre in an area which extends up to Shop St, Galway's prime retail street and the northern end of Eyre Square

The Seveso site also includes parts of the CIE site behind the Meyrick Hotel, formerly the Great Southern, which is now owned by Mr Barrett. He also owns the G Hotel and Ashford Castle in Galway.

Previously the Irish Government signalled its intention to offer tax relief for urban regeneration projects in former Seveso sites but these incentives have not yet been introduced.

The Enwest Oil Terminal, built by specialist contractors Cold-chon, led by John Killeen, is a state-of-the art storage and distribution facility that will serve the major oil needs of the Western region, with a capacity to store up to 40,000 tonnes of oil.

The facility is designed to operate and be compliant to the highest international environmental and safety standards.

- DONAL BUCKLEY

Link : http://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/barrett-seals-836437m-deal-for-oil-terminal-1693207.html

_Whimsical_

galvianlord wrote: »

but i thought he bought the new tanks not the ones to be torn down? topaz must still own the old ones so its their responsibility. what he did just speeded things up are they never would have got down in time for the race?

Sorry that was actually what I meant to say. He bought the new site and agreed deals for the removal of tanks rather than bought the old site. I ammended my first post to be clearer.Sorry for making a mess of that!