Brown & Mason charged with removing blot from Fife landscape.
Methil power station, long considered a blot on the Scottish landscape, is coming down. Since its closure in 2000, the iconic plant and its majestic chimney tower has dominated the local skyline, but, in the past seven days, work started to bring the structure to its knees.
Scottish Power, which still owns the plant, confirmed on Friday it has issued a contract for the work to demolition, dismantling and asbestos removal firm Brown and Mason. And the company wasted no time in getting on site, with workforce members arriving to start the job almost immediately.
A spokesman for Scottish Power told the Mail: “Brown and Mason have started their work now.
“We expect the steady demolition work to take until the end of 2011 when the land will be handed back over to Forth Ports to do with it as they wish.”
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