Showery day with not much wind. Temperature only 4.5C at the moment, and it's not going to get much warmer.
Locally, Stornoway Golf Club have applied for permission to play on Sundays. Failing that, they will take legal action to force their landlords, the Stornoway Trust, to grant them the permission. Whether we will get a ferry on Sunday will become clear by the end of January. I have noticed a shift in opinion in recent months, and I think it's only a question of time before the ferry does start a Sunday service.
The local fabrication yard has been promised the work for building the biggest of three windfarms in Lewis. 181 turbines will be built, stretching across 40 miles of moorland from Stornoway to Bragar, then northeast to the Butt of Lewis, the northern point of the island. The Scottish Government is to decide whether the project, unpopular with a majority of people in the island, will go ahead. A public inquiry seems likely. Two more windfarms are on the cards, both in the southeast of Lewis.
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Is this the same windfarm you have been opposed to all along? So it is a go even if the "people" are not in favor of it? It is bitterly cold here today...16. I don't know what 4.5C is but is SOUNDS cold!
ReplyDeleteLisa
It was sleeting here this morning.
ReplyDeleteGuess it's winter!
Our day is cold & gloomy looking with a slight breeze. No rain at this point in time. I'm off to get some groceries & mail a package before the next storm hits. I'm sure there's one out there somewhere...just waiting to pounce. Linda in WA
ReplyDeleteWindfarms are popping up all over here and apparently if they put them on your land you get big bucks from the companies. I wish I owned some of this wide open countryside out here. LOL
ReplyDeleteStay warm, Barb