Save Greenland Whitefronted Geese (1 Viewer)

[Argyll Eagle]

SAVE GREENLAND WHITEFRONTED GEESE

Some of you may remember me asking you to object to the Largie windfarm
application in Kintyre, Scotland earlier in the year. The proposal is to build seven 110M high turbines between the GWFG feeding grounds and their roosting lochs. The area is one of the most heavily protected in Scotland:SPA, Ramsar, SSSI, EEC directive.

After 2 area planning committee meetings, at which the Planning Officers, SNH and RSPB told the councillors that they must not approve the application, ArgyllWindFarms.com (Argyll's windfarm watchdog) has it on good authority that the councillors are planning to approve the application (Vestas manufacture wind turbines in the area and the developers have promised large payments to the community).

SNH have forecast 100 collissions each year and that many more could be killed in a catastrophic event during bad visibility.

Please, please help stop these crazy councillors, who can only see things in terms of money, by objecting online at: www.stoplargiewindfarm.com It should only take you a couple of minutes.

One councillor even suggested, after hearing from SNH that Iceland was banning the shooting of Whitefronts because of their falling numbers, that it would therefore be alright if the turbines killed some of the geese.

Iain Logan
Director AWF

 

[Mike Feely]

Sent & forwarded to family & friends

When are the planning committee due to reach a decision?

Mike

 

[Ben Nevis]

Sent & forwarded to family & friends

When are the planning committee due to reach a decision?

Mike

DITTO

Ben

 

[hampers]

Done, if my memory serves me correctly a similar proposal was refised on Islay some years ago, when we lived there. This was on another major area for GWG.

 

[Argyll Eagle]

Sent & forwarded to family & friends

When are the planning committee due to reach a decision?

Mike

Thanks for your support Mike. A decision is unlikely to be formally made until early next year. Hopefully by then SPP6 will be in place which will make it more difficult for councillors to go against their own local development plan.

Iain

 

[Tyke]

Done
Colin

 

[nirofo]

Signed and delivered.

nirofo.

 

[deborah4]

Hi Iain

Having just had a first lifetime experience of witnessing the arrival of Greenland Whitefront on Islay this Autumn, this struck me more so than perhaps it would have otherwise. Numbers of GW have declined radically over the years, according to the RSPB on Islay, winter home to over a quarter of the world's population of GW. It was suggested the decline could be a combination of not only of hunting but a growing incursion by Canada Geese into GW breeding grounds, so anyone thinking reduction in hunting compensates for potential deaths from a windfarm should perhaps think again - Any windfarm development in the Argyle area is bound to have a significant effect on this struggling Greenland endemic. I take it, wintering Barnacle and whooper swan could also fall prey to the windfarm development in this area? (oh and not to mention WTE or GE!)

(Needless to say: Signed, sealed and delivered)

Keep the pressure on :clap:

 

[hampers]

I echo Deborah's comments, having lived and worked on Islay any impact on this species, or any other, due to this type of development woudl be disasterous. Mine completed and sent.

Phil