Stuc a' Chroin and Ben Vorich
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Crail Festival
We were in Crail recently as the annual music and arts festival was getting underway. This beautiful sand scuplture rightly attracted much attention.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Trojan
Not been blogging recently since finding a nasty trojan downloader on the computer. I'm temporarily closing all photo albums since it seems to be uploading images and using my accounts so all these will have to be changed. All spy removers (and professionals!) have failed to get rid of it - I'm writing this on this on a new computer I've bought!!
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Loch Lomond wind power station proposed - Ard Ghaoth
Banks Renewables hopes to build a wind power station with 20 turbines near loch Lomond, a few miles east of Conic Hill, with each turbine being about 100m high. The usual bribery package will be offered to local communities if the application is approved.
The company is about to submit an application for a wind monitoring mast which will establish whether the site is viable, and ecological and ornithological surveys will also be carried out. Given that Stirling Council has identified the area as potentially suitable for wind power station development, it is hardly likely to reject the application - which is what it should do.
Source: BBC Scotland News
The company is about to submit an application for a wind monitoring mast which will establish whether the site is viable, and ecological and ornithological surveys will also be carried out. Given that Stirling Council has identified the area as potentially suitable for wind power station development, it is hardly likely to reject the application - which is what it should do.
Source: BBC Scotland News
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| Note the line of the WHW near Conic Hill. Click to enlarge. |
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
BBC Panorama - Undercover Care
This post has nothing to do with hills - it's more important than that as Alan Sloman rightly says.
Please, please, if you didn't watch this programme last night watch it as soon as you can on the iPlayer. Be prepared to be shocked, disgusted and very, very angry. See also Shirl's blog.
Please, please, if you didn't watch this programme last night watch it as soon as you can on the iPlayer. Be prepared to be shocked, disgusted and very, very angry. See also Shirl's blog.
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Moy Estate raid update and Skibo Castle Estate worker fined
Moy Estate - see post of 4 June 2010 'Moy Estate raided'.
When police raided the estate last June they found an estate worker with a dead red kite which, he said, he'd found in a trap set for stoats and weasels. The bird had not been poisoned but the worker had put the bird a Land Rover and did not tell his manager, the RSPB or police. The former apprentice gamekeeper has been fined £1500 at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Also at Inverness Sheriff court this week, an estate worker at the exclusive Skibo Castle estate has been fined £3300 for possession of the banned insecticide Carbofuran. He had 10kg, enough to "wipe out the entire Scottish golden eagle and red kite populations several times over" according to the RSPB. It was accepted that the worker had no part in the deaths of two golden eagles and a sparrow hawk found on the estate in May 2010, otherwise the Sheriff would have imprisoned him.
Neither Moy nor Skibo Estates appear to have been held accountable for the actions of their employees. At least I can find no reports saying so.
What with landowners in the Highlands queuing up to allow wind power station developments and reports such as the above, it is all very depressing.
Source: BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Steven McKenzie
When police raided the estate last June they found an estate worker with a dead red kite which, he said, he'd found in a trap set for stoats and weasels. The bird had not been poisoned but the worker had put the bird a Land Rover and did not tell his manager, the RSPB or police. The former apprentice gamekeeper has been fined £1500 at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Also at Inverness Sheriff court this week, an estate worker at the exclusive Skibo Castle estate has been fined £3300 for possession of the banned insecticide Carbofuran. He had 10kg, enough to "wipe out the entire Scottish golden eagle and red kite populations several times over" according to the RSPB. It was accepted that the worker had no part in the deaths of two golden eagles and a sparrow hawk found on the estate in May 2010, otherwise the Sheriff would have imprisoned him.
Neither Moy nor Skibo Estates appear to have been held accountable for the actions of their employees. At least I can find no reports saying so.
What with landowners in the Highlands queuing up to allow wind power station developments and reports such as the above, it is all very depressing.
Source: BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Steven McKenzie
Monday, 30 May 2011
Wind Prospect plans Burnfoot Wind Power Station extension.
Wind Prospect which built the 13-turbine Burnfoot Wind Power Station now wish to apply to build another 22 turbines as shown on the above map. If granted, they have 'promised' that they will not submit any future applications for turbines 'in the immediate area'. How good of them.
Burnfoot should never have been approved and Wind Prospect have clearly adopted the now common strategy of obtaining approval for a relatively small number of turbines then applying for extensions at a later date.
If this new development is approved, the Ochils are really on their way to becoming one big wind power station.
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| Wind Prospect's Plans. Blue area - Clackmannanshire, Green - Perth and Kinross. Black dots - current turbines. |
Wind Prospect which built the 13-turbine Burnfoot Wind Power Station now wish to apply to build another 22 turbines as shown on the above map. If granted, they have 'promised' that they will not submit any future applications for turbines 'in the immediate area'. How good of them.
Burnfoot should never have been approved and Wind Prospect have clearly adopted the now common strategy of obtaining approval for a relatively small number of turbines then applying for extensions at a later date.
If this new development is approved, the Ochils are really on their way to becoming one big wind power station.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
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