About Shetland
Shetland is a group of islands about 200 km north of Scotland. It is home to 22,000 people, and has some of the most dramatic landscapes, seascapes in the world. In 2007 National Geographic travelers magazine described it as one of the world's top unspoilt island destinations, ranking it third out of 111 islands surveyed by a panel of 522 sustainable tourism experts.
Read National Geographic article here.
This cluster of more than 100 islands sits like a jewel between the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Plans to develop a massive 150 turbine wind farm in Shetland would have a detrimental impact on the perception of Shetland as unspoilt islands. Tourists who visit and appreciate Shetland for its natural unspoilt landscapes would be much less likely to visit. People who live in Shetland, and those still to come in the next 25 years would lose an important part of their cultural heritage: a landscape of sea, hill and sky blighted by 135m tall wind turbines.
More about Shetland.
VisitShetland - Shetland tourism agency.
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Sustainable Shetland is a campaign group opposed to very large scale wind farms in Shetland. We believe these large industrial projects are damaging to our local environment. We believe that the Viking Energy Project 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 will damage the Shetland environment.
We want to see sustainable renewable energy projects in Shetland, and that these projects should be fit for scale, and provide real community benefit.
We aim to go beyond just being just an "anti-wind power campaign".
