Baillie Wind Farm - an opportunity to make your views known

WELCOME

This web site is designed to help inform the public about the proposed wind farm development near Baillie farm, centred on Stempster Hill and Bardnaheigh. The site provides information and links giving you access to a wide range of materials on both the proposed wind farm itself and the reasons for developing wind power as a whole. Critically, this site will endeavour to encourage all visitors to read and digest the information available and to respond, through the site or other means, highlighting your views on the Baillie Wind Farm, renewable energy and the wider climate change debate.

 

Bali talks seek to new climate pact
(Reuters) - About 190 nations met in Bali on Monday seeking a breakthrough to a new global pact to fight climate change by 2009 to avert droughts, heatwaves and rising seas that will hit the poor hardest.
03 December 2007

Brown wants UK to lead climate fight

Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants Britain to lead the fight against global warming and has hinted that climate change policies must become more ambitious.  He makes his first major speech on the issue later and will underscore the need to act immediately to combat global warming.

19 November 2007

Grim climate change report spurs UN call for 'breakthrough'

The Nobel-winning IPCC group of climate scientists on Saturday issued their starkest warning yet on global warming, prompting a UN demand for politicians to smash the deadlock on tackling the worsening threat. In a panorama of the evidence, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared that the impact of global warming could be "abrupt or irreversible" and no country would be spared
18 November 2007

Salmond plans Norwegian energy link-up

ALEX Salmond, the First Minister, is to meet Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, over plans to create a subsea "supergrid" to take green energy from Scotland to Europe.

30 October 2007

BT investigates £250m project for wind farm

BT YESTERDAY announced plans for a £250 million wind-farm project, which it hopes will eventually generate a quarter of its UK electricity needs.  The firm has identified sites in Orkney, Shetland and Cornwall for the scheme, and claims it is the UK's biggest corporate wind-farm project outside of the energy sector.
19 October 2007


 

Photo montage 1: Location: Achiveigle. Distance to nearest turbine - 1.2km
Photo montage 1: Location: Achiveigle. Distance to nearest turbine - 1.2km

Photo montage 2: Location: Lythmore. Distance to nearest turbine - 2.1km
Photo montage 2: Location: Lythmore. Distance to nearest turbine - 2.1km

Photo montage 3: Location: Bridge of Isauld. Distance to nearest turbine - 4.4km
Photo montage 3: Location: Bridge of Isauld. Distance to nearest turbine - 4.4km

Photo montage 4: Location: Broubster. Distance to nearest turbine - 4.6km
Photo montage 4: Location: Broubster. Distance to nearest turbine - 4.6km

BACKGROUND

Baillie Windfarm Ltd has submitted an Addendum to its original Section 36/planning application for a wind farm at Stempster Hill near Baillie. For some 12 years now the proposed site near Baillie farm, centred on Stempster Hill, has been identified as a good location for a wind farm. Indeed in 1994 a Danish wind company (NGT Ltd) began investigations into a development, but were unsuccessful in winning a contract under the Scottish Renewables Obligation in place at the time. Since then national developers have shown strong interest in the site and when one of these dropped out, the owners of the farm, Tom and Steven Pottinger, decided to undertake the development themselves. They established Baillie Wind Farm Ltd supported by a group of investors largely based in Highland Region. As the site has a capacity greater than 50 Megawatts an Application under Section 36 of the Electricity Act was submitted to the Scottish Executive in July 2004, followed, after consultation and revisions to the layout, by an Addendum in January 2006, which is currently going through the planning/consultation process.

Along with this process, Baillie Windfarm are taking this opportunity to obtain the views of local people with regard to the proposed wind farm. As local developers, they are keen to explore ways in which the proposed development can benefit the wider Caithness Community. For this reason they wish to consult local residents about their plans.

For more information on the proposed site please click here

For more information on how the community could benefit from the proposal click here

For more information on how to get involved in the project please click here

For more links to information on renewable energy, climate change and related matter please click here

For Frequently Asked Questions please click here

In order to register your interest in being involved in the project please click here