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OBJECTION TO THE MUAITHEABAL WINDFARM PROJECT

The Muaitheabhal Windfarm Project (MWP), Eishken estate, Isle of Lewis will have a severe impact on quality of life.

 

133 steel towers 130-meter tall, with 50-meter-long revolving blades will profoundly transform the natural, picturesque landscape of Eishken, which is part of a designated National Scenic Area and will permanently disfigure the landscape of the Western Isles.

 

The project will also have a severe impact on wildlife. The Eishken estate has been classified as an Important Bird Area (IBA UK224 Park). It is breeding ground for 12 important bird species, all of them protected by national and/or international legislation:

  • White-tailed  Sea Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla: 10 % of the UK population
  • Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos : 2.5 % of the UK population  
  • Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica
  • Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata
  • Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus
  • Merlin Falco columbarius
  • Greenshank Tringa nebularia
  • Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria (also of conservation concern)
  • Dunlin Calidris alpina (also of conservation concern)

 

3 transient Annex I bird species:

  • Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
  • White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  • Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis

 There are also local concerns about possible negative economic impact - tourism; and fears for pollution of the water table.

 

Read more in detail at EISHKEN BRIEFING

WHAT YOU CAN DO

 

Please write TODAY to the Scottish Executive, Scotland's regional governing body, and register your objection to the proposal. 

 

Please write to or send an email to

 

Paul Smith 

The Scottish Executive

Consents and Emergency Planning Unit

2nd Floor

Meridian Court

5 Cadogan Street

Glasgow G2 6AT

 

 

at the Scottish Executive (SE) with copy to the Western Isles Council (CNES) - link immediately below:

Mail to SE and CNES

In clear:

To: paul.smith@scotland.gsi.gov.uk, lewiswindapplication@cne-siar.gov.uk,

Bcc.: info@proact-campaigns.net

 
A draft text is provided below.

DRAFT TEXT

 

Subject: THE MUAITHEABHAL WINDFARM PROJECT (MWP)

 

By electronic mail to Mr Paul Smith, Scottish Executive

 

Dear Mr Smith,

 

I/we object to the Muaitheabhal Windfarm Project (MWP), Eishken estate, Isle of Lewis, because it will have a severe impact on the quality of life of residents and visitors to the Western Isles.

 

The project as it stands is likely to have a negative impact on bird and mammal life, water quality and the tourist economy of the isles. 

 

The arguments are spelt out in detail at:

 

http://www.proact-campaigns.net/windfarmsandbirds/eishken_briefing.html

 

I/we do not believe that the prospect of a gain in renewable energy outweighs the disadvantages for residents and other UK citizens in this instance.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

(Name and address)

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