Eco2 said it would certainly pursue the idea of river transport after it was put forward at a public meeting in the Angel Suite last week.

Alison Hill for Eco2 told the Mail that even if the solution took only 10 per cent of the proposed 240,000 tonnes of straw needed annually, it would help towards the project's sustainability and ease road transportation issues.
"It's a very exciting idea based on consultation in action and we are already looking at the scope for some barge transportation. It is good to get good suggestions like this from a meeting," she said.

Some 60-plus people, mainly Scawby Brook residents, packed out the Angel Suite for the council's planning sub-committee.
Issues raised by residents included the increased risk of a repeat of last summer's floods, but Dr Alan Toft for Eco2 said: the company would install extra lagoons north of the plant.
"I suggest that will create an improvement in drainage," he told them.
He insisted that lorry movements would be limited to 50 in each direction per day, although residents claim the numbers would be much higher.

Traffic, they claimed, would be increased to the extent that the route around Scawby would become 'a disaster waiting to happen'.

Town Councillor Ben Nobbs was concerned about the pressure
on the mini-roundabout at Scawby Brook, with lorries needing to make a very tight right turn for Scawby.

There were further accusations over noise level increases, drainage via the Scawby Brook Beck and sewerage demands.
The consultation period set aside by North Lincolnshire for the plant is set to end on Friday, July 4 with a decision due by September 11.

Brigg Town Council's Planning Committee meets tonight, Wednesday, in the Angel Suite at 7pm, to make a decision on whether to support the £80million power project proposals but the intriguing possibility of straw carrying barges on the Ancholme still remains.