Working the Wind

Land-Owning Community Trusts and the Decolonisation of Nature

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12286554
AutoresA Fiona D Mackenzie, Alison Mackenzie (0000-0002-7360-5639, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen66 (First Serie
Número1
Páginas44-64
Fecha de publicación2009-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScottish Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0966-0356 • E-ISSN: 2053-888X
EditorialEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/scot.2009.0005
OpenAlexW1966162837
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas13

In February 2008, the North Harris Trust finally gained planning permission for a three-turbine wind farm at Monan, a site just north of the quarry of Ceann an Ora, Ardhasaig, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. The North Harris Trust had taken over the ownership and management of the land of that estate in 2003 and, in part, had pinned its hopes of reversing decades of economic, social and cultural decline on the generation of renewable energy from the wind and its sale to the UK grid. The Dancing Ladies of Gigha, as the three turbines on that island are affectionately known, provided the inspiration for more than this one community land-owning trust's aspirations for a sustainable future. But, located within the South Lewis, Isle of Harris and North Uist National Scenic Area and within sight, from a small section of the main Tarbert-Stornoway road, of An Cliseam, the highest hill in the Outer Hebrides an icon of 'wildness' and itself subject to numerous environmental designations of national, UK, and European provenance the proposed scheme attracted the opposition of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), the statutory conservation authority, on the grounds, initially, of the potential impact on golden eagles and of visual amenity. On account of this objection

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