Please help Mary and the other campaigners, by sending an email of protest to the address shown in her post. You don’t have to live in Scotland to appreciate the scenery, or to want to visit as a tourist. Let’s try to stop another unnecessary blight on the landscape that makes bigger profits for electricity suppliers!
From time to time on this blog I have shared some of the glorious countryside we have here in Dumfries & Galloway in South West Scotland.
Unfortunately, a huge area of this is now at risk of being ruined by Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) which has put a planning application in to the Scottish Government to erect 118 giant pylons (up to 39 metres tall) from Glenlee, near New Galloway to Tongland in the south near Kirkcudbright.
The route goes over or close to iconic Galloway countryside including, the Queens Way (the road from New Galloway to Newton Stewart), Raiders Road, Stroan Loch and the Otter Pool. Laurieston Forest and the Kenick Burn will also be impacted, along with an avenue of beech trees by the burn’s picnic area. The route also goes over the C13 road from Laurieston to Gatehouse of Fleet, a road…
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Thank you for remembering, Pete! Sorry, had forgotten to send a email. Will do tomorrow. Its horrible to put such windmills into this wonderful countryside. Dont we have so many deserts, where they would not harm? Michael
Btw: I had heard the same from Greece. There they would put windmills on all the smaller isles.
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These are not wind-turbines, Michael. They are large metal pylons with electricity cables connecting them. Like this.
https://stock.adobe.com/uk/images/power-towers-the-electricity-pylons-carrying-the-power-from-strathdearn-to-strathnairn-over-glen-kyllachy-forest-and-ruining-the-landscape/189070279
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh, thank you for the explaination, Pete! But at least the same thing, because they need a massive grounding too.
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Emailed & reblogged. Cheers, Jon.
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Thanks very much for helping, Jon.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Underground cable is the only way to go!
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This country is blighted by pylons, David. Fortunately, there are not that many in Norfolk.
Best wishes, Pete.
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