Seil Chat

Fish farm very much still an active issue ... link below perhaps worth a read?

http://www.saveseilsound.org.uk/

a female goldfinch perhaps?

Large number of objections on ABC site will at least guarantee the proposed new fish farm gets studied a bit closer ..... I see quite a few familiar local names have commented BUT .. yes a lot of the unfamiliar names come with carbon copy email text .... what alarms me (if correct) is that no eia ha...

Was there at meeting and among reasons for rejecting raera were things like it it being visible from the Scarba, Lunga & Garvellachs national scenic area ... surely something that'll he a hurdle for any other proposed wind farms too?

I'm not remotely surprised -- the oban times digital edition KO'd it severely

covers whole of UK, has done for a few months now.
seems to be only private roads missing from it

wind farms in UK are just there to top up supply right now - to theoretically get a large % of power from wind they'd need to be on every hillside, which won't happen. Over a whole year they save having to burn millions of £'s worth of fossil fuels. In these times of UK having surplus generating cap...

the raera forest was about due to be harvested anyway

yep, have to be careful with photos & images - all too often there's small print that states it's for personal use only on 1 computer, only for non commercial /'not for profit' use .. check ze licence carefully ... likes of creative commons licenced pics are usually OK I think, just give a photo...

I wouldn't read too much into a daily hate anti-windfarm article - ain't a very reliable source of valid information. Not enough wind isn't usually a problem here though - saying that the last few months have been unusually calm, big storms seem to have by-passed us somehow. The actual wind farm doe...

I would hope some sort of disclaimer could get around these new rules -- "to the best of our knowledge no copyrighted material is on this website, in the unlikely event you find any please report to site owner" -- or something? So they are going to try to rush through this digital economy ...

my real name on a public forum ? have not done that in the last decade -- saying that my username is a big hint

BNP are a very small voice in Scotland, came 10th in 2007 Scottish elections with 1.2% (UKIP 0.4%) .. gives a rough guide.
If you want a protest vote against the big partys vote for an Independent candidate ... Independents have a history of doing well in elections in Argyll & Bute

BNP have no chance in Argyll & Bute --- same with Labour -- 3 that have a chance .. Lib Dem, SNP & Tory

You cant trust either Labour or Conservative to do the right thing for the UK -- would do the UK good to get rid of both of them. have to add ... there never was going to be a referendum on the 'european constitution' as it had been rejected before we had a chance to organize a referendum on it ... ...

I like a peaty characterful single malts myself

ones from from Islay, the one from Jura, Oban & some from Skye

Think I was once a member on here a while back -- decided to have another look mainly due to the luing causeway & raera wind farm issues currently going on. Now a fixed link to Luing has been wanted by many for a long time (lack of it made relatives of mine leave Luing in the '60s) & a bridg...

The council seem to be very keen on a causeway as they think it will be a cheap option. Once someone has done some real sums and someone else who knows what they are doing has explained the hydrographic implications I expect they will drop the idea quickly enough. yes , I think that's how things wi...