YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO HINDER THE PERMANENT DESPOILATION OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL ISLAND

Dear Councillors,

You will soon be asked to vote on the subject of erecting 6 wind turbines on the pristine landscape of the Isle of Lewis.

If you approve this project you will be opening a modern Pandora’s Box for your island, your home. It will mean the foot in the door for 550 additional turbines which will transform your beautiful island into a vast industrial zone; at the permanent expense of the flora and fauna, with catastrophic economic effects for the tourism industry, and a irreversible destruction of a great part of your home.

To quote from the CNES Landscape Assessment Policy:

"Studies undertaken by Tourism Management Services as a basis for its Tourism Management Plan showed the landscape qualities of the Western Isles to be a key reason for attracting visitors.  Policy ENf 1 indicates the Comhairle’s commitment to foster understanding, managing and enhancing of the landscape assets."

We urge you to follow this guideline to the letter.

You still have a chance to stop this terrible rape of one of the most beautiful and natural areas in Britain and Europe. Use your responsibility well. Not only you and your children will thank you. A signal will be given to those planners and politicians elsewhere in Europe and the UK to follow your lead. Clean energy can be a good thing; but not at the expense of a permanent imbalance in nature and despoliation of the countryside. Money, not much of which will stay on the island, can be no recompense

Yours sincerely

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