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To date, the Energy Consents and Deployment Unit (ECDU) have received 36 consultation responses from a variety of organisations with an interest in the development. These responses are all available on the Scottish Government website. The ECDU have also received 3,292 representations from members of the public. These are not published on the Scottish Government website to protect the identities of individuals.

There is no requirement under legislation to acknowledge, either in writing or electronically, representations received.

Due to the excessive cost, both in postage and in staff time, it is no longer the policy of the Energy Consents and Deployment Unit (ECDU) to respond in writing to representations received. Should the representation have been submitted by email, to the email address stated in the press notices, [email protected], the author will receive an automatic acknowledgement. All representations received are collated and logged and form part of the final determination process for the application.

Press notices were placed in the Scotsman on 17 August 2010 and in the Dundee Courier and Edinburgh Gazette on 17 August 2010 and 24 August 2010 advising members of the public of the submission of the application. These notices advised members of the public to submit representations to [email protected], which is the enquiries email address for the Energy Consents and Deployment Unit (ECDU). The second press notices for this development were placed in The Scotsman on 9 November 2010 and in The Courier and Edinburgh Gazette on 9 November 2010 and 16 November 2010. These notices advised members of the public to submit representations to the dedicated Dundee Biomass email address [email protected], which had been implemented to deal with the level of representations being received. The biomass section of the ECDU website quoted the dedicated email address as the point of contact during the consultation. The ECDU enquiries email address is quoted elsewhere on the website as general point of contact, hence no amendment or correction was required.

All representations received to either email addresses have been collated and logged.

Transport Scotland will continue to operate in the event of any damage to the pipeline.

The works undertaken during the Forth Replacement Crossing works will ensure further routine and other maintenance on the pipeline does not disrupt the Southern Approach Roads. Any future work on the pipeline after completion of the road will be carried out within BP''s risk assessments and at BP''s cost.

Financial information relating to those costs is commercially confidential and cannot be released.

While the volume has been calculated for designing suitable mitigation measures it would be inappropriate to release this information.

The Project Insurance Programme includes provision for third party damage. There are no Third Party Contingent Liabilities.

On detection of a loss of flow, pipeline pumps will automatically shutdown and isolation valves will close. A manual shutdown of the pipeline may also be initiated following detection of a leak at site. Shutdown would take approximately two minutes.

The cap was set following negotiation with BP. The Environmental Statement does include the cost of mitigation measures.