Pile on the pressure - make your views known.

The  Inverness local part of the public inquiry into the proposed transmission line from Beauly to Denny has finished. The next stage of the local inquiry is concerning the Cairngorm National park will be held in Newtonmore. Check www.beaulydenny.co.uk for timetables, details and documents on public inquiry.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Write to your MSP and MP about your concerns and request they look into alternative ways of transmitting power, - e.g. underground, subsea, or generate power nearer to the users. Check contacts page for MP/MSP contact details.
• Write to the press with your concerns. 

The cumulative, negative impact of so many lines and pylons in one area

Potential health risk - especially to young children

Unacceptable threat to property values

Unacceptable effect on protected wildlife and their habitat

Adverse effect on tourism, landscape and recreation

Failure by the developer to fully investigate advanced techniques for burying power lines as they pass through communities and sensitive areas

The unacceptable social and economic price for supplying power to Central Scotland and  

The questionable need for the line upgrade and associated Balblair extension

The incomplete SSE consultation process

The inadequate amended environmental statement from SSE 

The lack of a national tranmission policy  which should research all routing options and consider of the impact of future multiple lines