the action was opposed by some Hartlepool residents and environmental groups. Able acquired a license to carry out the work from the Environment Agency in 2008. The delays caused by the objections to the process caused Able to lose the US contract for 9 of the 13 ships. In 2007 Able was fined £20,000 for failing to follow proper procedures when disposing of asbestos. By 2009 the four US ships that had been received at the site, together with the former French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, were sealed inside the dry dock, which was drained, and the ships scrapped. Other constructions decommissioned at the same time included the former jacket of an installation from the North West Hutton Oilfield. Dismantling work was completed in 2011. The TERRC site was again the subject of a planning conflict in 2012 when Hartlepool Borough Council rejected a planning submission (to extend the height Seaton Meadows landfill) made in an attempt to prevent spontaneous combustion of refuse which had been occurring. During 2009/2010 Able published plans for a site on the south Humber Estuary bank to provide a large logistics facility and facilities for wind farm equipment manufacture and installation; The Able Logistics Park received planning permission in 2013, The £450 million estuary side port development Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP) received planning consent in December 2013, after having been delayed due to concerns over wildlife impact. In 2014 proceedings for a Development Consent Order for the AMEP plan were begun. Associated British Ports (ABP) submitted two petitions: an objection and an alternative petition for amendment, both based on objections to compulsory purchase of land it had recently announced the intention to develop for a hydrocarbon importation facility, the Immingham Western Deepwater Jetty (IWDJ). ABP was subsequently accused of filing wrecking amendments at the initial hearings. ABP sought a modification of the plans, shortening the AMEP quay by . At hearings in April 2014 ABP's petitions of objections were found to be valid, requiring the development case to be heard by a committee of MPs. By July 2014 other issues with the plan had been withdrawn, with the ABP petitions to be heard at an inquiry in October. In August 2014 work began on a £60 million environmental remediation scheme for AMEP to create an alternative wading bird habitats on the banks of the Humber, enabling works began for the AMEP development in the same