COUNCILLORS have agreed to request a report in connection to a petition which expressed concerns over the impact of the Viking Energy wind farm construction and how it is monitored. The petition was submitted by campaign group Save Shetland on Monday. At a meeting of the full.
A PETITION signed by more than 1,200 people raising concerns over the environmental impact of the Viking Energy wind farm construction is to go in front of councillors on Wednesday.
Despite the petition only being handed into Shetland Islands Council earlier today (Monday), it will get an airing at a meeting of the full council on Wednesday.
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Council convener Malcolm Bell said: “A petition has been received and will be considered by members at the full council meeting scheduled for Wednesday.”
The petition has been handed in by campaign group Save Shetland, which says there is concern that the wind farm construction work is “not being independently monitored and scrutinised”.
At the side of roads, across scarred landscapes where heavy industry once pounded the earth and dreary corners bereft of plant life, a colourful revolution is about to stir. Below the hard ground, preparations for spring are underway. Before too much longer the bland landscapes, once heavily trimmed roadside verges, over-manicured grassy parks and dull brownfield sites, will be ablaze with colour, scent and the buzz of bees. Pretty yellow buttercups, simple daisies, towering red poppies, delicate wild orchids and powdery blue cornflowers and bluebells – familiar to past generations in acres of meadows and roadside verges before progress took over - are set to make a colourful return in, if all goes to plan, greater numbers than have been seen for years.
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OPINION: Many unknowns as Highland area set for mixed fortunes due to Brexit and Covid-19 pandemic effects By Contributor Published: 19:30, 17 January 2021
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Brexit and Covid-19 s impacts make it difficult to predict what will happen to the Highland economy in 2021.
IT is very difficult to forecast what will happen to the economy in 2021 for two main reasons: the continuing coronavirus pandemic and the impact of the Brexit decision for the UK to leave the European Union, writes Highland economist Tony Mackay.