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A quick Google produces this:-

http://www.proact-campaigns.ne[...]msandbirds/amec_and_lewis.html

which might offer a few clues. This is a map of the proposed sites:

http://www.proact-campaigns.ne[...]armsandbirds/lewis_wf_map.html

Certainly looks like they want to bollox up this fabulous arrangement. Protest by writing to (borrowed from website):

"Please write to the Scottish Executive, Scotland's regional governing body, and register your objection to the proposal.


Please write to or send an email to


Ms Lesley Thompson

The Scottish Executive

Consents and Emergency Planning Unit

2nd Floor

Meridian Court

5 Cadogan Street

Glasgow G2 6AT



at the Scottish Executive (SE) with copy to the Western Isles Council (CNES)

before 13th December 2004. (link immediately below):

Mail to SE and CNES



In clear:

To: [email protected], [email protected],

Bcc.: [email protected]


A draft text is provided below or you can compose your own using the following main points:

Say that you object to Amec/British Energy's wind farm development application because of the risk to the Lewis Peatlands Special Protection/RAMSAR Area and to the Golden Eagle and
ask for a public inquiry.
(Note: letters that are different, not copies of a model used by other campaigners, have more impact).


DEADLINE: DECEMBER 13TH 2004


DRAFT TEXT


Subject:

LARGE SCALE WIND TURBINE DEVELOPMENT ON A SITE DESIGNATED UNDER NATURA 2000 AND THE RAMSAR CONVENTION


By electronic mail to Ms Lesley Thompson, Scottish Executive


Dear Ms Thompson,

We wish to register an objection to the proposals lodged by Amec and British Energy for a 234-turbine wind farm on the Isle of Lewis in the Lewis Peatlands Special Protection Area (SPA), Isle of Lewis, Scotland, a site also designated under the RAMSAR Convention.

This consortium has chosen to ignore consistent and repeated advice from concerned individual conservationists and organisations to avoid developing on areas designated for their wildlife value. The proposed wind farm is of a scale, and in a location, where the damage it will do will harm this important area - legally protected for its important birds and rare peatland habitat.

This is part of a network of the very best sites for bird life in Europe, protected under European law. Any proposal for development on any of these EU protected sites has to pass a number of tests, the most fundamental being that any development should not damage the integrity of that site. The other factors which have to be considered are whether there are any alternatives to the proposed location for the development and whether or not there is over-riding public interest in the development going ahead.

We believe that the Amec and British Energy proposal would damage the site, that there are suitable alternatives and that the public have a greater interest in maintaining the moor as a wild place than in allowing industrial development on it. A development on a special site like this should be for the benefit of the environment and our future generations, not to their cost. As for the threat to birds, the Golden Eagle is well known to be highly susceptible to turbine blade strike (more than 1000 eagles have been killed in Altamont, California, over the last 20 years) and there are sufficient other significant threats (e.g.: persecution, poisoning) to the Scottish and European populations. Other bird populations and important habitats are, as you are aware, at risk of destruction or despoilation.

This is a matter which causes grave concern to UK and European conservationists and we join them in requiring that you turn down Amec/British Energy's application. Failing this, at the very least, we urge you to demonstrate your accountability and initiate urgently a public inquiry.

Yours sincerely,

(Name and address) "


Don't suppose they'll mind me borrowing this from the website - spread the word and all that . . .

One for HA?

treaclechops x


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Posted by treaclechops
1st January 2005ce
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