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Windfarms on this Scottish isle are contentious – renewables must work for local people too
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Windfarms on this Scottish isle are contentious – renewables must work for local people too
Turbines owned by the Galson Estate Trust, Lewis, Scotland. Laure Leglise, CC BY-NC-ND
The landscape on the remote Isle of Lewis is striking: a mix of rugged terrain, peatlands, moorlands, lochs, sandy beaches and cliffs.
This island at the northern end of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, has one of the UK’s highest levels of fuel poverty and a declining population of fewer than 20,000 people. Encircled by the Atlantic and exposed to powerful, persistent winds, it is an ideal location for wind en
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