Outdoors writer and anti-windfarm campaigner on the proposals to erect 21 huge turbines on the edge of the Cairngorm National Park.
Posted:
16 January 2012
by
Jon
As we reported last week, a local government planning meeting tomorrow is set to rule on the controversial Allt Duine Windfarm, a plan to erect a cluster of 400-foot wind turbines on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park.
One of the spokespeople for the campaign against the development is prominent outdoors writer Chris Townsend, a Cairngorms resident. Today he put up a blog post on his own web site about a walk he'd taken with a photographer from the Independent to show him the places from which the proposed windfarm would be visible - they include the car park at Coire Cas in the heart of the mountains.
The Independent will be running a piece about the wind farm tomorrow to coincide with the planning meeting - so watch out for that - but in the mean time it's worth taking a look both at Chris's latest blog about the photo walk at www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2012/01/cairn-gorm-walk-allt-duine-view.html.
Arguably even more telling are the photos in an earlier post showing the area where the proposed windfarm would actually be located. It may not be within the park boundary, but as you can see from Chris's images and feel from his carefully chosen words, it's a beautiful place that arguably deserves better than to be blanketed with 31 wind turbines.
'The Monadh Liath is a subtle landscape,' says Chris. 'One of curving gentle slopes, vast sweeps of moorland, lonely pools and trickling burns. The attraction is in the wildness and remoteness, the sense of space and freedom rather than dramatic peaks or spectacular rock scenery.'
You can read the full post and see more images at www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2011/09/allt-duine-landscape-under-threat.html.
And if you want to register your support for the campaign against the development or simply learn more about it, head on over to www.savemonadhliathmountains.com.
