I get the impression that the Highlands are being converted into one vast power station to feed the greedy south.
The electricity being produced here is being given a state of the art and urgent transport system to carry it south, whilst we poor humans have to endure antiquated Victorian roads to travel south, roads which would not be tolerated in the south. Road improvements are being cancelled wholesale, the A9, the A96, the Inverness roundabout, in favour of powerlines. We could do with a few village bypasses instead of powerline bypasses.
SSEN's route coming down from the north shows the proposed pylons closely following the existing track of the inner low voltage line, then at Loth it is proposed to move inland and pass over Carrol Rock between the inner low voltage line and the outer high voltage line which already passes north of Loch Brora. Why does it not continue either close to the existing inner line or pass close to the existing outer line. Why create three separate tracks passing Brora and Golspie when, after all, they all merge at Loch Buidhe a few miles further on?
Perhaps because we are only the human residents with not enough votes to be taken seriously?
