Getting Environmentalism right, at last!
For once the BBC have some some good news to report on the environment. I do have sympathy for the islanders who wanted this project to boost their flagging economy. They also hoped it would keep more young people on the island but they were mis-guided.
Lewis needs investment and it desperately needs people and the Scottish parliament and the Highland Council should act to bring those things about. Selling their souls to 'environmental' mammon was not the answer and thank everybody's God they have been saved.
The damage this monstrous development (see details here) would have done to the Lewisian landscape and habitat over 100's of square miles was irreversible. Other industries can be found that will allow economic expansion and that will still preserve the irreplaceable. This is not conservatism gone mad, on my part; the consequences of this project going ahead would have been crime piled upon crime and our descendants would never have forgiven us (at the risk of sounding a little melodramatic).
update 12th February:
I ain't over 'till the big wumman screeches, it seems. My joy was premature (sadly something I'm used to). The latest whispers from the beeb suggest there is still plenty opportunity for madness, corruption or self-delusion to destroy the Lewisian landscape for ever. It seems the Scottish Parliament is begging people to give them reason not to turn the plans down.
