Campbeltown Courier - Letters to the Editor 24.1.25

I didn’t see an index and there was no easy-to-grasp document giving me an executive summary, maybe telling me about potential risks involved in the project. 

I got the feeling this was intentional, to make it impossible to understand any aspect of the proposal and to get the little people out of the way. 

What I particularly wanted to find out was how 75 metre blades - 246 feet in old money - would be transported from Campbeltown harbour to the wind farm.

I managed to find something in one of the folders and it was at best 0.5 baked, ie infeasible, a plan that was probably made by someone in St Martin’s Lane, Covent Garden, London, without leaving the office. 

Part of the plan has 75 metre blades being transported along the Moss Road, a single track road, past the wee cottage and up and over the lovely humpbacked bridge. Pure magic! 

I also wanted to know how they would get the electricity out. Would there be overhead cables and pylons all over the place or would the electricity be shipped directly to Ireland? I didn’t get an answer to that. 

But what can we do? We should inundate dpea@gov.scot - case reference WIN-130-9 - with objections to this absurd plan and contact our MSP Jenni Minto at Jenni.Minto.msp@parliament.scot who declined to attend a previous meeting voicing our concern.

And thanks to Ian Mitchell and his heartbreaking YouTube video ‘Hands off the Mull of Kintyre’.

Dr Patrick Prosser, Sound of Kintyre.