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| Correspondence with Local Places and Highland Adapts | |
| By: TinaIrving Date: July 3, 2023, 3:43 am | |
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| Tina Irving <[email protected]> | |
| 09:36 (2 minutes ago) | |
| to Douglas, NORTH, Graham, Harper | |
| Hi | |
| Thank you for your response. You are indeed very helpful. My | |
| thoughts are thus, and I am copying Douglas Chisholm of the | |
| Highland Council, as I spoke to him last week and he is looking | |
| at the matter of the North Highland Way. | |
| 1. Your project is an excellent initiative. EIAs are dealt with | |
| within the planning system, but I just found a floating windfarm | |
| off Dounreay which it would appear Nature Scot knew nothing | |
| about. (Graham Neville - he is on holiday at the moment) | |
| 2. It does not "fit" with the Highlands and Islands Climate | |
| Change Hub well, as they do not understand economics. I had a | |
| long discussion with the Scottish Government about this last | |
| week. | |
| 3. There are the Local Place Plans which THC are looking at at | |
| the moment. I emailed Douglas about it this morning. This | |
| cannot be done on voluntary effort. | |
| 4. There is no holistic view of the whole situation in Northern | |
| Scotland but there is on Orkney. | |
| 5. There is the matter of the EU Directives on Climate Change | |
| and Sustainable Tourism not being met, as they sit with SEPA. I | |
| had a discussion with planning about that some time ago. | |
| 6. There are insufficient resources both within the Highland | |
| Council and Highland Adapts, therefore the whole project of | |
| NetZero, Adaptation, Zero Waste etc will fail. | |
| As an economist, that is my view. I have refused to do any | |
| further voluntary work. It is unsustainable. | |
| No doubt Mr. Chisholm will deal with this. He, like the Access | |
| Officer, is a very capable and experienced Council Officer, and, | |
| like his predecessor Colin Simpson very approachable. | |
| Meanwhile, the Global Climate Change Week goes ahead. | |
| www.tinagostravelling.wordpress. | |
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