AFTER some three years of plans, public meetings, promotions and protests, the most impactful north-east Scotland electricity project in generations – the Spittal-Beauly 400kV overhead line – is set for official consideration and then go ahead.
But Highland community councillors, campaigners and local people are far from lying low with the prospect of huge pylons across their horizon to connect an ever-growing forest of wind farms.
The Ross-shire village of Contin is historically more familiar with trekkers, cyclists and tourists interested in the surrounding wildlife, loch and forest vistas than activists.
However, last Friday evening saw dozens of local people make their feelings known as the deadline neared on Sunday to object to the SSEN proposal for the
60- to 70-metre high pylons that would pass nearby if the scheme goes ahead. In particular, objections that will be considered by the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit (and ultimately ministers) were voiced jointly by several community councils in the area, citing a lack of a strategic energy framework and calling for a planning inquiry commission. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25540246.highland-residents-fight-goes-pylons-plan-moves-forward/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNa4LNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqnU7428EuGfuJm4oiFFhzP0_g6Y5mL5nK8ETnTnlo2mGjoDf8pRvBvBkLsV_aem_0KOgOym74ZMB3G5dASATfw

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