The ERA decided that Costa Hill would be the best site for their wind driven electric generator and in 1949 they placed an order with John Brown Ltd, the Clyde shipbuilders, for a turbine with 60 feet blades.
The 1955 Costa Hill Wind Turbine
Power For The People
The £250,000 power station was 154 feet long and 79 feet wide. Constructed by Orkney Builders using local stone and reclaiming land from the Peedie Sea, it would be powered by diesel oil.
Emma Roddick MSP: “The UK’s broken energy system requires an urgent overhaul.”
“The nature of the UK’s privatised electricity system places many hurdles along the path to a new cable. “
Orkney Interconnector: Raising the Case in Parliament
“We must not let our islands fall behind in their ambitions to help tackle climate change due to delayed planning decisions.”
“This is a plan to sneak fossil fuels in the back door through the use of blue hydrogen.”
Environmental campaigning organisation Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) have severely criticised the Scottish Government’s recently published Draft Hydrogen Action Plan.
A Just Transition: Where?
Inequality is built into our UK energy systems where the places producing the most renewable energy, and exporting it south, are also paying the highest tariffs to buy back that same electricity to heat their homes and power their businesses.
“I have never, ever looked back” – David Mowat, Shapinsay
David was anxious about falling into debt and was having a “hard battle just to try to keep warm.” Feelings of loneliness and isolation were increasing
Surviving the Shipwreck
“Independence has never been more vital to our health, prosperity and wellbeing. How fortunate we are to be allowed to escape a bouroch not of our making. “
Geothermal heat from coalfields: a ‘green’ revolution?
“Sooner rather than later all energy users will be forced to change their source of energy to ones that do not involve fossil fuels.”
Re- Creating Orkney’s Uranium Protest Walk
And so it was that on Saturday 21st of August 2021, another group of Orcadians, this time led by Dan Lee and the project team of ‘Orkney Energy Landscapes’, took to the hills and re-created that same walk.
