Contact your MSP and these list MSP's. Tell them you think there should be a local public enquiry as part of the Viking Energy windfarm application. Ask them to put your concerns to the Scottish Energy minister Fergus Ewing. MSP contact details.
Sustainable Shetland runs entirely on volunteer effort. We have no paid staff. No office. The only expenses reimbursed are postage, some stationery and hall hire. For everything else, like travel, telephone and other expenses, these costs are met from committee members own pockets. In short the organisation is run on a shoestring. In contrast, Viking Energy spend tens of thousands of pounds of Shetland Charitable Trust money, your money – on promoting their project.
With your support we can help level this unequal playing field. We need your money. Your help in raising money for Sustainable Shetland.
Cheques made payable to Sustainable Shetland can be sent to our treasurer:
Sustainable Shetland
C/o Mrs Wendy Fraser, Treasurer.
New House
Tresta
Bixter
Shetland
ZE2 9LT
You can pay money directly into our bank account by telephone banking, e-banking, bacs or at any Royal bank of Scotland branch. Our account details are:
Bank: Royal Bank of Scotland
Account name: Sustainable Shetland
Sort code: 83 24 22
Account number: 00601662
As well as donations and fundraising, we welcome your involvement in the campaign in any way you feel able, your skills, experience and support will play an important role in the weeks, months and possibly even years ahead.
Lend a hand and make a difference!
We are a democratic organisation, you can read our constitution here. A membership form is here. Joining gives you a chance to participate in how we made decisions. What we do and how we do it. Membership also gives us a mandate to act as a group representing many members of the community. Membership is already around 753 people. For a total population of only 22,000 this probably makes Sustainable Shetland the largest membership organisation in the isles. Membership is helpful, participation is even better!
Sustainable Shetland is a campaign group formed in response to a proposal for a large scale wind farm in Shetland. We believe these large industrial projects are damaging to our environment. We believe that the Viking Energy wind farm endangers Shetland Community Funds, and that project costs are underestimated, whilst project income grossly overestimated.
We believe that the Viking Energy proposals are everything we do not need in Shetland: they are financially risky and may damage the Shetland environment.
We want to see sustainable renewable energy projects in Shetland which are fit for scale and fit for purpose. and provide real community benefit.
We are not an "anti windfarm" campaign. However we are strongly opposed to the Viking wind farm proposal. Other projects will be considered on their own merits.