Spittal Hill Wind Farm - an opportunity to make your views known

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This web site is designed to help inform and shape the proposed wind farm development at Spittal Hill. The site provides information and links giving you access to a wide range of materials on both the proposed wind farm itself and the reasons for developing wind power as a whole. Critically, this site will endeavour to encourage all visitors to read and digest the information available and to respond, through the site or other means, highlighting your views on the Spittal Hill Wind Farm, renewable energy and the wider climate change debate.

 

Salmond plans Norwegian energy link-up

ALEX Salmond, the First Minister, is to meet Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, over plans to create a subsea "supergrid" to take green energy from Scotland to Europe.

Proposals have been previously mooted to connect renewable schemes in the Highlands and Islands to an underwater grid in the North Sea to export power to the Continent.

Yesterday, Mr Salmond told the Highlands and Islands Convention that Scotland's natural resources held considerable potential as sources of power.

He added: "We have six to seven times the power Scotland needs, but we have to figure out how we take that power to market. It would have to go subsea in a supergrid to take the power to energy-poor areas."

Mr Salmond plans to meet Mr Stoltenberg and European officials early next year. The First Minister said he also hopes to make progress on reducing National Grid connection charges.

30 October 2007
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Photo montage 1: Location: A9 near Spittal. Distance to nearest turbine - 1.7km


Photo montage 2: Location: Junction A9 A882. Distance to nearest turbine - 4km

BACKGROUND

Spittal Windfarm Ltd is a locally based company set up by Tom and Steven Pottinger who own the farm on Banniskirk Mains. In the early 1990s Tom and Steven were approached by developers exploring the opportunity of developing a wind farm on their land. Wind data indicated the site would be an excellent location and, more recently, Tom and Steven decided to form a company in order to hopefully develop and run the site while retaining as much local ownership as possible.

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