Campaign Against Electricity Pylons in the Highlands

A campaign has been launched to fight plans to build a 50-mile corridor of electricity pylons across the Highlands to help link a proposed wind-farm in the Western Isles to the national grid.
Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission Ltd. is examining the feasibility of erecting 200 pylons, up to 50 metres high, through the glens from the Ullapool area to Beauly, near Inverness.
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Greenbanks

1 Jun, 2004

i think this is fair enough. Anything that brings cheap power to England is surely worth doing

MJH

1 Jun, 2004

Well we have a choice to make do we want green energy or not? If we want green energy then in some cases (though not all) we have to accept that the best places to site green energy production will be in some of our most scenic areas (eg Lakes/Scotland etc). If we a re still happy with building green energy production units then we also have to accept that we need some way of getting that energy onto the national grid... So you have lots of green energy facilities and grid pylons or....a nuclear power plant....

MJH

1 Jun, 2004

I fear that the costs of putting high voltage tranmission lines underground would be excessively high - IIRC this is normally only done in areas of high density human population.

MJH

1 Jun, 2004

Switzerland much smaller place and they are much happier "spoiling" their mountains with cable cars! I am not sure that a wind farm in Lewis will send much energy towards England! However it still does need access to the Grid.

MJH

1 Jun, 2004

Sorry I didn't mean to give the impression that I was in favour of this project or not. I am not at all sure that "Green" energy is better. As you say there would have to be a significant amount of capacity for this project to be worthwhile.

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