Eileen West has a strange object in her home in Aberdeenshire – a scale model of a huge electricity pylon, built as part of a local campaign against the “monstrous” metal structures.
A new pylon line is proposed just a few hundred metres from her home. The steel towers will typically be 187ft (57m) high – significantly taller than most pylons in Scotland. Some could be as high as 246ft (75m).
They are part of a planned 66-mile (106km) route – between the town of Kintore and the village of Tealing – to transfer power from wind farms off the north-east coast of Scotland to where the electricity is needed.
“I think we’re being sacrificed,” says Eileen, a member of Deeside Against Pylons. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2d3zlkl4kro?fbclid=IwY2xjawIOGRNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfNCJInp30TOK9uFMSz-1tF7rivyXE7Xo8orhgOU-3bydCXWx37r2FfwXw_aem_5gxStNB_PhIjx-brG3bGMw
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