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Well look on the bright side, there  will be a lucrative decommissioning project,when we have used up all the wind . :ponders:  :rofl: 

 Not necessarily...

 

"A spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "Any decommissioning plan will be carefully considered by the government, taking into account environmental, safety and cost implications, the impact on other users of the 'area' and a public consultation."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-39528090

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Interesting to read the outcry about this development already (21 turbines) compared to the South Yell one (17 turbines) which hardly raised a peep in the way of opposition.

 

Kinda says to me that objectors dunna really give a stuff about bird strikes, carbon release from peat disturbance, environmental damage etc and it's really all about whether they have to look at them or not.

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Interesting to read the outcry about this development already (21 turbines) compared to the South Yell one (17 turbines) which hardly raised a peep in the way of opposition.

 

Kinda says to me that objectors dunna really give a stuff about bird strikes, carbon release from peat disturbance, environmental damage etc and it's really all about whether they have to look at them or not.

I would not think that many birds will come to harm among the big slow turning wind turbines,but this will be a different story among the fast turning ones we see outside public halls and located near to private houses. Do not hear much opposition to the latter!

 

Cannot understand why so much opposition to this project when we have so much "free" wind that could be used to the benefit of us all.

 

Grant it something of a less ambitious size and owned and operated by "wiz Shetlanders " would be a much better option.Why does everything have to be owned and operated by "sooth moothers"

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Interesting to read the outcry about this development already (21 turbines) compared to the South Yell one (17 turbines) which hardly raised a peep in the way of opposition.

 

Kinda says to me that objectors dunna really give a stuff about bird strikes, carbon release from peat disturbance, environmental damage etc and it's really all about whether they have to look at them or not.

I would not think that many birds will come to harm among the big slow turning wind turbines,but this will be a different story among the fast turning ones we see outside public halls and located near to private houses. Do not hear much opposition to the latter!

 

Cannot understand why so much opposition to this project when we have so much "free" wind that could be used to the benefit of us all.

 

Grant it something of a less ambitious size and owned and operated by "wiz Shetlanders " would be a much better option.Why does everything have to be owned and operated by "sooth moothers"

 

 

Are you seriously not seeing the larger picture here?  This won't go ahead, allegedly, unless the interconnector is in place.  In other words, this is the start of the flood gates to back up the VE project.  They need to build LOTS of windfarms all over the Shetland Isles to make the interconnector viable.

 

This isn't about benefits to the/a community.  This is about corporate companies earmarking sites so that even if VE doesn't go ahead in the foreseeable future, they want the planning permission in place so that they can sell the 'rights' on to another developer in the hope that subsidies will be reinstated/become more favourable so they can rip off more of us plebs via the extra dosh we pay on our electricity bills to subsidise 'green' energy projects.  IF they get refused planning permission or IF people object, the developer will not give a stuff because they will just go and appeal to the Scottish Government, no doubt.

 

It won't create lots of jobs in the long term.  It WILL destroy the environment that it is allegedly there in the long run to protect via 'green' energy.  It will be an eyesore.  It will be the start of many.  Now if you want hundreds of wind turbines on an industrial scale dotted around the Shetland Isles and offshore, together with the reported ill-health effects, then you crash right ahead and support this con - I'm most definitely not supporting it.

 

The sums they are spouting about in general of X to the community can easily be already generated via the stock market as is already proven with the SIC's fund managers and will bring in MORE than wind farms for investing elsewhere without destroying this lovely set of isles.  Take away the subsidies and they don't make money, it's that simple.

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Interesting to read the outcry about this development already (21 turbines) compared to the South Yell one (17 turbines) which hardly raised a peep in the way of opposition.

 

Kinda says to me that objectors dunna really give a stuff about bird strikes, carbon release from peat disturbance, environmental damage etc and it's really all about whether they have to look at them or not.

 

yell folk generally speaking give the impression that the majority of them are for windfarms if theyre not complaining anyone else complaining is going to be accused of dictating to them

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What we need is a public vote on this .

 

We do not require massive wind farms, but suppose there was a couple on the Staney Hill to assist in the heating of the Clickamin Centre,,Pool,New School and Hostel surely that would help keep the running costs down .

 

There could be district heating schemes through out Shetland all sourced from wind .

 

Would that not benefit us all .

 

Trouble here in Shetland nothing is ever done in moderation.

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So it seems there are redundancies at Viking energy because the project will now not commence

until 2019.

As a layman I know little about windfarm technology, but wonder how much this will have advanced by

then, and how much has changed since the birth of this project?

Perhaps by 2019 we will need fewer and smaller windmills, making the designs of the originals obsolete.

Any experts out there who can comment on this?

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Perhaps by 2019 we will need fewer and smaller windmills, making the designs of the originals obsolete.

 

Hmmm......

 

Perhaps by 2019 our telly's, computers, cookers, washing machines and lights will run on gas. Won't need to connect us to the national grid then.

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^ and maybe enough folk will see sense and concentrate on developing technology to harness the only 100% reliable and predictable renewable, tidal, and stop wasting time and resources chasing the fickle and erratic.

 

I'm not holding out any hope though, not as long as wind is a cash cow from the subsidies that we're all paying for through un-necessarily dear electric.

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But back in April

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/13/scottish-islands-hold-out-for-government-u-turn-on-windfarm-subsidies

 

 

Ministers are believed to be on the verge of a U-turn on their manifesto pledge to halt the spread of subsidised onshore windfarms – on remote Scottish islands, at least.

 

Or is that just to make the windfarm promoters stop hassling them for a while?

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uks-undersea-cables-risk-potentially-115900083.html 

 

Surely it would be prudent to build a new power station in Shetland,if this article bears any truth..
 
Also our communications should be considered and not become totally reliant on undersea cables,guess all our oil and gas pipelines are also at risk .
 
Never put all ones eggs in one basket !
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