Viking Wind Farm Site quardrants
Total area inclosed in red areas: 12800 hectares (32000 acres). Note that the non-enclosed areas are as more concerned with public presentation than being actual non-used site areas. Once you add add access roads, sub-stations, control stations and associated permanent and temporary site infrastructure, the areas between site quadrants could become part of the overall site. Hence the site boundaries give a more realistic view of the total site area.
Site quadrants (January 2008)
Taken from Viking Energy Scoping Report. January 2008.
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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".
