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‘As a community, we have a right battle ahead’

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‘As a community, we have a right battle ahead’

This is an updated version of a feature originally prepared to set the scene for the national Power Shift project, a partnership of ten local news outlets investigating the green power boom. With 2025 coming to an end, it is worth once more to get a handle on the multitude of projects that are currently proposed for Shetland.  
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Wind turbines on a hill overlooking a rural landscape with scattered houses and green fields under a cloudy sky.

Achieving community benefit is hard work and requires communities to overcome differences over divisive energy projects

  • 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
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Invasive predators?

In this ViewPoint contribution, former parliamentary candidate, former councillor and trustee of Shetland Charitable Trust, journalist and book author Dr Jonathan Wills, offers a lesson in recent local history and in dealing with large energy corporations
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A landscape featuring multiple wind turbines on a hilly terrain during sunset, with a winding road and a small body of water in the foreground.

Local winds, global storms: the journey of a Shetland wind turbine

One single turbine from the Viking wind farm connects Shetland to global, national and local impacts that are often overlooked. This is the first part of a small series of articles, contributed by Erin Rizzato Devlin as part of our PowerShift project, that investigates the challenges of the transition to net zero taking into account impacts in Shetland, Chile or China.
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The Hebridean wind rush – A growth opportunity for global corporations but not community owned energy?

  • As part of the Power Shift project, we publish articles from across Scotland on how fair the transition to net zero really is
  • Shetland’s experiences are not unique as this account from North Lewis demonstrates
  • Power Shift is a collaborative project of 10 local news organisations from across Scotland, including Shetland News, with support from the Tenacious Journalism awards
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Illustration of a rural landscape with wind turbines, solar panels, and houses, promoting an investigation into Scotland’s green energy boom by The Scottish Beacon.

Voices from rural Scotland on the renewable energy rush

Rural communities say the transition to green energy is leaving them sidelined. Over coming weeks Shetland News, and its partners in the Power Shift project, will be exploring how fair the energy transition really is; from community benefit and shared ownership to accountability and the planning system
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What is happening to Yell?

Yell will see some big changes over coming years with two large onshore wind farms plus associated infrastructure set to be constructed on the island which is also part of the Scottish Government’s carbon neutral islands project. In this long and thorough ViewPoint contribution, local resident Adrian Brockless explores some of the contradictions of the processes involved and wonders if, perhaps, we are all on the brink of making some catastrophic mistakes in the name of climate progress.
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