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What is a Community Benefit Fund and should it influence your opinion on MachairWind? Whether a community supports or opposes an offshore wind development should rely on its assessment of the wind farm’s environmental, cultural, social and economic impacts. Community benefit funding is not designed to shape whether a community supports or opposes a wind…

Every year, we pay multiple millions of pounds to cover the cost of “constraint payments” through our electricity bills.  These are payments made to power companies to switch off wind turbines due to the grid the infrastructure being insufficient to move the power from offshore wind farms to the places that need it, predominantly large…

Will ScottishPower Renewable’s MachairWind impact Mull’s visitor economy? As acting Chair of Visit Mull and Iona, with the support of the VMI Steering Group, I have been working closely with Iona Community Council which has carried out thorough research on the impacts of MachairWind.  VMI is now part of Hebridean Horizon, a group formed to…

MachairWind: Landscape Impact on our Islands For generations, the west coast horizons of Scotland have been part of our identity. They are world-renowned landscapes that people travel from across the globe to experience: vast open seas, unspoilt island views, dark skies, wildlife, and a sense of peace that has become increasingly rare in the modern…