Detail behind the map: More turbines could be set up in the Highlands – Press and Journal

By Iain Ramage

Highland Council’s radically revised planning strategy governing windfarms
appears to open the way for potentially many more turbines.

The detail of the updated colour coded map has revealed there is
potentially significant scope for development in many areas including
popular tourist hotspots.

The coding has altered within the Inner Moray Firth, on much of the Black
Isle, in the Great Glen, down the south side of Loch Ness, between Nigg and
Portmahomack, between Tain and Kildary, on Dava Moor south of Nairn and
between Drumnadrochit and Cannich.

Two swathes of countryside beside The Old Man of Storr on Skye are now also
fair game.

And even bigger turbines could follow.

The annual Scottish Highland Renewable Energy Conference in Inverness
tomorrow will discuss such an option.