NEWS

10 December 2006
Report goes to Scottish Executive

We understand that the final report by the Public Inquiry Reporter has now been completed and submitted to the Scottish Executive.

More details here.

22 September 2006
Presentation to Malcom Hay

At a gathering in Glass last night, a small presentation was made to Malcom Hay in recognition of his contribution to the Public Inquiry.

More details here.

24 July 2006
Public Inquiry - Consortium Closing Submission

A copy of Malcolm Hay's closing submission on behalf of the Consortium of local land owners can now be downloaded.

More details here.

1 June 2006
New planning application.

A planning application for 2 wind anemometers in the Cabrach has been submitted.

More details here.

12 February 2006
Comments on SAOS Report.

Comments and discussion are invited on the SAOS report and AMEC response.

Comments will be published on this site.

9 February 2006
SAOS Report on Community Fund released.

AMEC have published the results of the recent consultation carried out by SAOS regarding the proposed Community Fund.

Four documents are available for downloading here.

6 February 2006
Government Energy Policy in Chaos

An article in the Sunday Times reveals that many new wind farms face long delays to get connected to the National Grid.

Read more here.

26 January 2006
Difficulties with AMEC CD.

Some people have had difficulty viewing the CD for the Supplementary Environmental Information.

Read how to overcome this here.

19 January 2006
Delays in information supply.

Richard Hammock has complained to both Aberdeenshire Council and the Scottish Executive about the delayed availability of information from AMEC.

Read copies of his emails here.

12 January 2006
Supplementary Environmental Information.

AMEC Wind Energy have provided a copy of the Supplementary Environmental Information on CD.

If anyone would like to view this please contact Mike Davies on 01466 700213.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Important!!

17 May 2006
Public Inquiry commences.

The Public Inquiry has now commenced in the Huntly Hotel.

Further details available here.

9 February 2006
Public Inquiry revised dates announced.

The Public Inquiry will now commence on Monday 15th May 2006.

All relevant documents to be referred to should be submitted by 10 April. All precognitions should be submitted by 24 April.

Representations on the Supplementary Environmental Information, including the latest information on Noise and Table 4 should have been in by today.

26 January 2006
Public Inquiry probably delayed.

It now seems probable that the dates for the Public Inquiry will slip.

A date in May has been suggested but not yet confirmed. This will affect all relevant dates.

We will post the new dates as soon as they are available.

19 January 2006
New website for Huntly

A new website has been launched for the town to promote it for tourists and visitors.

Go to www.huntly-online.com.

10 December 2006
Report goes to Scottish Executive

We understand that the final report by the Public Inquiry Reporter has now been completed and submitted to the Scottish Executive.

Unfortunately there is no timetable for the Ministers to consider the Report and make their decision. It is unlikely to be less than several months as they have many applications to deal with.

Any further news or other information will continue to be made available as it appears.

22 September 2006
Presentation to Malcom Hay

At a gathering in Glass last night, a small presentation was made to Malcom Hay in recognition of his contribution to the Public Inquiry.

A group of the more active campaigners, including the Glass Consortium, Keep Glass Beautiful (KGB) and Friends of Clash, met to thank Malcom for his efforts and contribution. A Tribute on behalf of all the objectors by David Mackay, who was unable to be present, was read out together with a poem by Steve Wright. A framed copy of Steve's poem and an original cartoon by David Wells were given to Malcom.

Thanks to Andrew and Clarinda Snowball for their generous hospitality.

A copy of Steve's poem can be downloaded here, and David Mackay's tribute here.

1 June 2006
New planning application.

Apparently Christopher Moran of Cabrach Lodge/House has an application to Moray Council for an anemometer on Scaut Hill - next to A941 and 8 miles South of Dufftown. Site A is at GR NJ332312 and Site B is at GR NJ301268, between the A941 and the Glenfiddich Forest, on OS sheet 37 Strathdon.

Anyone who wishes to object should do so to Moray Council. You can do it on the internet or by post. A suitable wording for a letter can be downloaded below.

Go to www.moray.gov.uk. Click on 'Building Standards and Planning' under 'Online services' on the right. Click on 'On-line search facilities'. Click on 'Planning', 'Application search' and enter one of the 2 numbers below and click 'Search'. If you click to 'View details' there is a button to enable comments to be submitted.

There are two applications for anemometers so make sure you object to both

Anemometer. Scaut Hill. Near A941 8m South of Dufftown
Applications 06/00944/FUL and 06/00943/FUL
Applicant is Infinergy, www.infinergyltd.com.

Relevant dates are :
Date of application 20 April 2006
Objection expiry date 8 June 2006
Target date 17 July 2006

Download a draft letter here.

10 February 2006
SAOS Report on Community Fund released.

AMEC have published the results of the recent consultation carried out by SAOS regarding the proposed Community Fund. This fund would arise in the event that the proposed windfarm is constructed.

Four documents are available for downloading :

AMEC Press Release (2 pgs, 66KB)

Information released to the media announcing the publishing of the report.

AMEC Conclusions (2 pgs, 66KB)

AMEC's response to the findings and recommendations of the SAOS report. It specifies particular parameters of the proposed Community Fund including membership, management and the fund amount.

SAOS report (25 pgs, 177KB)

Full text of the SAOS report, including the Report on Consultation and Recommendations, a Briefing Paper and a set of Model Rules for a co-operative.

Map of communities (1 pg, 680KB)

If anyone has any queries or comments Robert East of AMEC can be contacted on 01434 611300 or email to robert.east@amec.com

Alternatively any comments can be posted on this site for general discussion. These should be sent to the webmaster@glassclash.info and will be available here.

6 February 2006
Government Energy Policy in Chaos - Sunday Times 5 February 2006

THE government's renewable energy policy is in chaos after hundreds of wind farm companies were told that they face delays of more than 10 years before they can sell any of the electricity that they produce.

Green energy targets are under threat because the national grid is unable to cope with the large numbers of wind farms applying for connection.

Read the full article here.

26 January 2006
Difficulties with Supplementary Environmental Information CD.

Some people have had problems viewing the CD. The initial screen may have links that don't work and files may not open in Adobe Acrobat.

To view the CD it is necessary to have the Java Runtime Engine installed as the links are Java applets. This can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html (Download J2SE JRE).

To open and read the files, mainly the figures and appendices, requires Adobe Acrobat version 7. It will work with version 6 but there will be an error message. Acrobat can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. It should recognise your operating system and offer suitable downloads.

I hope this will enable everyone to view the information. Any queries please contact Mike Davies.