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The British Gas Corporation and Total Oil Marine have applied for outline planning permission to build a reception and transmission plant for North Sea gas on the disused airfield at Crimond in Aberdeenshire. This could have a considerable effect on the Loch of Strathbeg, Britain's largest coastal dune lake, which lies alongside the airfield, particularly because the proposed access for pipelines crosses both loch and dunes. This article describes why the loch is of particular interest.
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BOURNE, W., GIMINGHAM, C., MORGAN, N. et al. The Loch of Strathbeg. Nature 242, 93–95 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242093a0
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