RSPB Objection
RSPB Objection APPLICATION FOR CONSENT UNDER SECTION 36 OF THE ELECTRICITY ACT 1989 FOR THE PROPOSED GLEN EARRACH PUMPED STORAGE HYDRO PROJECT IN THE PLANNING AUTHORITY AREA OF HIGHLAND COUNCIL (ECU REFERENCE: ECU00005121) Thank you for consulting RSPB Scotland on the above application. We understand the benefits the proposed development could bring in terms of […]
Woodland Trust Objection
Woodland Trust Objection The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We own over 1,000 sites across the UK, covering over 30,000 hectares (ha). In Scotland we own and care for around 60 sites covering in excess of 11,300ha which include the 4,000ha Glen Finglas estate and significant urban forestry holdings in Glenrothes […]
Highlands Rewilding Objection
Highlands Rewilding Objection To whom it may concern, Glen Earrach Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme (the project), ECU ref: 00005121, THC ref: 25/01599/S36. Highlands Rewilding Ltd. (HRL) objects to the application for the following reasons. Impacts to land and water managed by HRL. Pumped Storage Hydro (PSH) schemes increase the frequency of water level fluctuations (WLF), […]
Buglife Objection
Reasons to object… It is not just our communities that have serious concerns about the Glen Earrach Pumped Storage Hydro proposal. A number of local, national and international organisations have raised objections. To save you the trouble of finding them on the Energy Consents Unit website, we will be profiling several here, but if you […]
‘Green’ energy project threatens Loch Ness, says renewables pioneer
Press Release from Highlands Rewilding Solar renewables entrepreneur, Jeremy Leggett, warns that Loch Ness hydro project is an inappropriate mega-development that could devastate Scotland’s irreplaceable habitats A Scottish rewilding organisation led by Dr Jeremy Leggett, has lodged a formal objection to the controversial Glen Earrach Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme, warning that the project could cause […]
Geology is the ‘rocky’ foundation of the Glen Earrach project
By Stuart Haszeldine OBE FRSE C.Geol. Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh (https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/stuart-haszeldine) The geological foundations of Glen Earrach proposal are very poorly known, this has been surveyed only briefly in 1983, finding multiple types of complex faults, which are likely of very different ages, including up to the present day. That’s not a surprise […]
Beyond the Briefing – Podcast
Save Loch Ness recently contributed to a podcast, hosted by the Inverness Courier, where we and Glen Earrach Energy (GEE Director Roderick MacLeod) share our views on Pumped Storage Hydro on Loch Ness. Unfortunately both ‘sides were recorded separately, so Save Loch Ness weren’t able to engage in direct debate with GEE but no doubt […]
We are on YouTube!
Save Loch Ness is now on You Tube. One of our members has put together some very informative videos on access and locations that will be impacted. The music is quite good too! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@SaveLochNess We will be aiming to upload many more videos in the coming weeks so keep […]
A FUTURE IN THE GLENS
Just as I was getting to grips with the gravity of the proposed Glen Earrach Pump Hydro Storage scheme for Loch Ness, I happened across a book in ‘The Old School House’ shop in Beauly. Recently published, I knew I had to read it and had no hesitation in buying a copy. Set in 1947 […]
How to Object
Save Loch Ness has been working hard behind the scenes with Planning, Hydrological and Ecological consultants, and we have also been engaging with aquatic and landscape specialists, to draft an initial holding objection, which has been submitted to the Energy Consents Unit. This will be revised and updated in due course as more information from […]