tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5885721414924598154.post8661884923067353130..comments2022-04-16T18:05:27.386+01:00Comments on Arnish Lighthouse: Power-line upgradeADBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17737746983905368038noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5885721414924598154.post-78434491839797383822010-01-06T22:18:53.000+00:002010-01-06T22:18:53.000+00:00Am always slightly baffled by opposition to huge p...Am always slightly baffled by opposition to huge pylons marching across the highlands etc. The mountains and glens are strewn with them from scenic Cairngorm to the roads leading to Inverness and Ullapool. Even the wilds of Lewis are littered with telephone poles. Most of these are viewed from great scars of concrete roads and dual carriageway. You tune them out. Scenery like that doesn't bow to behemoths and manmade structures. Rather they dominate it. Can't say I'd like to live underneath the super pylons but as an aesthetic they just get lost in the grand schemes...thecroftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5885721414924598154.post-8965134772574266932010-01-06T23:45:44.000+00:002010-01-06T23:45:44.000+00:00I entirely agree with the Crofts comments. I was 1...I entirely agree with the Crofts comments. I was 11 years of age before "going away" to the mainland and to this day I look at Electricity Pylons as an icon of the Highlands. The coming of electricity and water to rural Lewis and Harris came after WW2 - i.e in the 1950s and these two things brought huge improvements to these Islands. Even the greens, on balance, welcome the announcement today for the go ahead of the Beauly Denny Line. It is FANTASTIC good news for the Island and the environment.Observernoreply@blogger.com