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The Case for a Community Cable 

On the 16th of October this year, the lights literally went out on community energy in our isles. The subsea cable that links Skye to Harris, supplying our power from the National Grid but also enabling the export of power […]

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The Game Is Changing

Readers, an update today on the community wind farm campaign. Firstly, the interconnector is dead. End of.  Ofgem’s statement that the case for an interconnector cable (be that 450MW or 600MW) to the Western Isles “had not been met” tells […]

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Time for Plan B

The news, when it came, was on Messenger. “See Heb News. LWP fail in subsidy bid…” It was Friday and the list had been published of the renewables projects which had been successful in securing subsidies to develop under the […]

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Calling All The Women

Hello, friends. Firing off a quick blog post today in a bid to reach any politically inclined women on the island who are unaware of an event taking place in the Comhairle building tomorrow which they could / should go […]

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Land Court shocker as evidence not required

There has been a development in the battle for the rights to develop wind farms on the common grazings land around Stornoway. The news came, at the end of the last week, that the Scottish Land Court had ruled in […]

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Listening on another level

A few days ago, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon declared a Climate Emergency, during her speech to the SNP conference. She pledged that Scotland would “lead by example” as our obligations to the next generation are “the most important we carry”. […]

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Thoughts on International Women’s Day

A massive, celebratory, shout-out, this International Women’s Day, to all those women who strive for better, who go against the grain, who stick their heads above the parapet and generally dare to live their lives in a way that does […]

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Think Different – its value and pricelessness

Something significant happened in my world this week – I set up as a limited company.  Going limited has meant a mental shift in gear, as much as a legal or accounting one, and it is exciting. And it takes […]

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Questions of governance at Stornoway Trust

So Lewis Wind Power were consulting yet again last week, on their fourth proposed version of Stornoway Wind Farm. What a complete mess this whole thing is.  What I’m going to deal with in this blog, however, is not LWP’s […]

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Victory for Crofting Rights

A shocker for Lewis – today’s revelation that the Scottish Land Court has ruled in favour of the Melbost and Branahuie Grazings Committee in their battle with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited over the disputed land at Stornoway Airport. The […]

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