Bolting for Home
Dear reader — I’ve been marooned by the Beast from the East! I’m just home off the ferry tonight, after one big misadventure on the mainland. I was meant to be away until this coming Tuesday but I made the […]
A whole lot of media activity
Friday — and I’m feeling almost punch drunk. Completely dazed, thrown about, and wondering ‘what just happened here?’ In a good way, I think. What a week it has been. There has been so much going on – some of […]
Anyone got £71million to lend the Comhairle…?
I went to a play on Friday night. It was about Hebridean women. In particular, those women — our great-grandmothers and grandmothers, mainly — who were out there in the world, making an impact and fighting for women to have […]
Top Story prize at Highlands and Islands Media Awards
It’s been a big weekend. I’m a bit lost for words so I’m just going to share with you here a news release put out last night from the organisers of the Highlands and Islands Press Ball and Media Awards… Lewis-based journalist Katie Laing’s coverage […]
EDF up the ante with a new wind farm base in Stornoway
Looks like the French multinational with grand designs on the crofting ground of Lewis is strengthening its grasp on the Hebrides. Lewis Wind Power (the disingenuously titled partnership of EDF Energy and Amec-Foster-Wheeler) is setting up a new base in […]
Community’s 20% stake in wind farm dismissed as ‘hollow offer’
There’s a standing joke in my house. Whenever I’m writing a blog post, my husband will drift by and say: “Ooh, is it about wind farms?” So apologies to anyone if I’m boring you but I will keep on following […]
Scottish Crofting Federation boosts community windfarm hopes
It’s been nearly a month since the deadline for objections to the Scottish Land Court over the plans by Lewis Wind Power — AKA multinationals EDF Energy and Amec-Foster-Wheeler, in partnership with landowners Stornoway Trust — to develop a 36-turbine […]
Hundreds of objections to Land Court over EDF turbines
I’ve been blogging on this so it’s only right that I post this update: hundreds of objections have been sent to the Scottish Land Court over EDF’s plans to build a 36-turbine wind farm on crofting land in Lewis without […]
Pressure grows on Allan and MacNeil as Comhairle’s SNP group declare support for crofters
The clock is ticking. We are on a rapid countdown to the deadline for objections to EDF’s Section 19 application to the Scottish Land Court, which would allow them to build a giant wind farm around Stornoway and give them the […]
A few days to save the next 70 years
I cycle out the Pentland Road early in the morning quite often. When the weather is kind, it’s lovely and peaceful, with an atmosphere of real tranquility. I always pass under the shadow of the three turbines at Beinn Ghrideag, […]