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Balancing Environmental and Cultural Impact against the Strategic Need for Wind Power

Balancing Environmental and Cultural Impact against the Strategic Need for Wind Power. Simon Clarke. The Strategic Need – Peak oil. Oil Fields outside OPEC and the Former USSR. CO 2 and Climate. Carbon dioxide parts per million in the Second Millennium. Wind Power.

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Balancing Environmental and Cultural Impact against the Strategic Need for Wind Power

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  1. Balancing Environmental and Cultural Impact against the Strategic Need for Wind Power Simon Clarke

  2. The Strategic Need – Peak oil • Oil Fields outside OPEC and the Former USSR

  3. CO2 and Climate • Carbon dioxide parts per million in the Second Millennium

  4. Wind Power • Most developed technology with potential for significant expansion in the UK. Fair Isle’s first turbine erected in the 1980s. Now a Scheduled Monument.

  5. Wind Map • Scotland the most favourable location in Europe.

  6. H&I best locations in Scotland Burradale, Shetland • Annual efficiency figures of up to 58% • Twice the national average.

  7. Conflict with Heritage, Lewis • Highest proportion of designated areas of any UK region. • Special Areas of Conservation • Important Bird Areas • Special Protection Areas • National Scenic Area

  8. Turbine Scale 120m turbine compared to high rise structures

  9. Bird Strikes • Altamont, California • 1000 birds of prey killed annually • An extreme example • Illustrates the importance of EIA.

  10. Moorland Carbon Capture – and Release Lewis Peatlands

  11. Exceptional Archaeology Callanish, Neolithic Stone Circle

  12. Archaeological Landscapes Scord of Brewster, Neolithic landscape

  13. Setting and Landscape Aesthetic • Sleeping Beauty mountain range • Important part of the sky line viewed from Callanish. • Partially within the NSA

  14. Power Distribution • Best potential wind generation sites are some distance from main areas of consumption. • Major “Grid Strengthening” required, which is itself environmentally damaging.

  15. Archaeology & Climate Change • Coastal erosion will increase dramatically as the result of increased storminess and rising sea level. • High profile sites will be protected in the short term, but many others will be lost. Mousa Broch, Shetland

  16. Habitat Loss • Sub-alpine montane scrub • Meall Mor, Glencoe • Dwarf willow Salix myrsinites

  17. Channerwick, Shetland Natural bog burst, following heavy rain 2003

  18. SNH Sensitivity Zoning

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