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Gravir Villagers meet with SHETL |
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Gravir villagers hold showdown against energy cable ( 29/8/08)
A large crowd of disgruntled villagers have held a showdown with energy giant SSE to try and stop it industrialising a remote rural part of Lewis.
Scottish And Southern Energy (SSE) through its subsidiary firm Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission (Shetl) wants to build a large electricity convertor station on a hill above Gravir in South Lochs. |
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Council recommend School Closures |
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Councillors agree to axe all rural secondary schools 26/8/08
Western Isles education councillors have voted unanimously to abolish the island’s unique rural two-year secondary system.
This afternoon councillors agreed to shut all seven year secondary schools.
A last minute motion by Lochs councillor Annie Macdonald to keep them open until a new high school was built on Lewis was withdrawn just minutes after it was lodged.
But a final attempt to delay shutting the schools is expected at next week’s full council meeting.
Otherwise Bayble, Daliburgh, Lochs, Paible, Back, Lionel and Shawbost secondaries will shut for good.
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Inter-connector plans for Gravir |
A multi-national energy firm may force the building of massive electricity transmission infrastructure on crofters' land against their wishes it has emerged.
Scottish And Southern Energy (SSE) via its subsidiary firm Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission (Shetl) intend to turn the small rural coastal village of Gravir in South Lochs into an energy crossroads as the central focus for an electricity transmission network.
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Eishken Windfarm -Final Planning Granted |
The first major wind farm for the Western Isles was finally granted planning permission.
Western Isles Council quietly signed the go-ahead for the £ 45 million scheme making it the only large energy scheme in the Hebrides to be approved.
Earlier this year the Scottish Government refused building the world’s largest onshore wind scheme on Lewis
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Mass U-turn to reprieve closed schools |
In a mass midnight U-turn by the council, all the closed Western Isles rural secondary schools are to remain open until further notice.
After a late night vote, councillors reversed earlier decisions to shut the islands’ S1/ S2 schools.
The reprieve came at nearly midnight - just two hours after the same councillors took the conflicting action to shut Back secondary.
Reduced government funding, falling pupil numbers and the changing curriculum have been hailed as importance reasons to get rid of all seven secondary units.
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