Sustainable Shetland
We would like to see renewable energy projects which are sustainable. Projects which are fit for scale. Projects which do not harm our environment or put at great risk community funds.
Sustainable development would be projects and initiatives which provide benefit to the current generation without jeopardising future generations.
Not everything can be measured in financial terms. What price would you put on a view, a landscape, a walk in the hill with only birdsong for company?
The unspoilt nature of Shetland landscape. The eco-diversity of plant, bird, animal and fish species. Our upland and hill areas relatively unchanged for millennia. These are the things at risk. These are some of the things which make Shetland special. Deplete these elements and you deplete the very things which make people come to Shetland to visit or live. Damage your own environment and you damage the very thing which make Shetland so distinctive.
To hear some Viking Energy director comments you would think that building roads, quarries, foundations, and giant turbines was the best way to help Shetland nature.
We disagree.
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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".
