Who Is Your Landlord?
On the eve of the Scottish Land Court hearing into the case of Lewis Wind Power versus The Crofters, I have brought in a guest blogger with a special interest… Scots land law. And he is going to be looking […]
A Knight in (Green) Shining Armour
I made a mistake in a press release for one of my clients last week. It was a piece on Gaelic resources and made a passing reference to Deputy First Minister John Finnie. A wee Freudian slip, but possibly understandable […]
Great show of support for the crofters
Serious apologies to any of my readers who are here for a variety of subjects and yarns… I’m still on wind farms, I’m afraid. But that’s only because there’s loads going on (and I promise to bring you something different […]
Scottish Land Court hearing dates for Lewis wind farm fight
Straight news today, for those of you following the ‘David and Goliath’ battle between French multinational EDF and the crofters fighting them for the rights to develop wind farms on their common grazings… The Scottish Land Court has announced dates […]
The Stornoway Wind Farm Thumbscrews
With the CfD renewables subsidy auction only seven months away and EDF Energy still locked in a legal battle in the Scottish Land Court over their controversial scheme for Stornoway… the thumbscrews are on and being tightened. The French multinational […]
The ‘no other way’ fallacy – Redlands history repeats itself
Sticking with wind farms for a wee while – I have a guest blogger today, who is looking at the similarities between EDF’s massive wind farm schemes for Lewis and the Lingerbay super quarry controversy. In particular, he is looking […]
EDF plan giant offshore turbines for Stornoway and Eishken
Breaking news tonight. EDF Energy are hoping to put giant turbines, of the size normally sited offshore, on their wind farm sites on the Isle of Lewis. The turbines being planned by EDF would be up to 200 metres tall […]
Too Many Soldiers, Not Enough Scouts
The main story in Stornoway this week is that there’s an election happening soon – for five people to be elected to the Stornoway Trust and effectively become our landlords. For the benefit of those who don’t know, the Stornoway […]
Marking my anniversary and celebrating other female bloggers
If you do social media, yesterday was a pretty good day to be online. It was International Women’s Day and there was so much positivity, so much celebration. It got me thinking about all the wonderful women I know, some […]
A final plea for money for Stornoway Primary
A final attempt is to be made tomorrow (Wednesday) for Stornoway Primary to be allocated money for improvements in this term of the council — a story that I have written about for the Gazette this week. The full newspaper […]