
Outrage in Voe – community gives thumbs down to pylons and new substation







- The Shetland Community Benefit Fund is the largest of its kind in the UK
- Those behind the fund share the lessons learned from what was a 15-year long process
- SSE says it has a long standing commitment toward providing community benefit
- This feature is part of the Powershift project, a collaborative journalism initiative that investigates how Scotland’s green energy transition communities and power dynamics across the country



- Senior councillors acknowledge public perception that business is done behind closed doors
- Briefing papers from seminars to be published from next year onwards
- Call for more meetings to be held in public
















- Local councillor says he did not recognise the criticism levelled at the spaceport
- SaxaVord did not engage in SpaceWatch UK’s ‘field work’


















- Tunnels more than just economic infrastructure
- ‘Unrealistic’ to expect the Scottish Government to fund tunnels
- More ‘Tunnel Vision’ events next week



