There are plans afoot for major renewable energy developments across the island of Lewis. It involves an offshore windfarm, a couple of miles west of the West Side; electricity transmission infrastructure (such as pylons and cables etc) and substations. One such substations is pencilled in for an area immediately south of the Castle Grounds, a big grey box, extending for a quarter of a mile and standing 90 feet tall. It would stand out like a sore tooth. Another substation would find itself on the banks of the Creed River, a mile or so to the west - and I'm not even talking about cables and pylons. All that power will be sent down a subsea cable to the mainland and the National Grid. We in Lewis stand to gain the grand total of £4.5m per annum; whereas SSEN and Northland (the developer) stand to make hundreds of millions of pounds. I wonder whether the protests, that are beginning to be organised, will help to thwart these plans. I sincerely hope they do.
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