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Gallery of Pictures and Opinion |
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Gallery of Pictures and Opinions
IN BRIEF
- More photo-montages will be displayed as they are become available
- Whilst care has been taken to represent the development as clearly and accurately as possible, photo-montages can only give an impression and are not reality.
- You can send information, links, comments, or quotations for publication at our discretion.
MAPS AND DIAGRAMS
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PHOTO-MONTAGES
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The photographic images taken from important viewpoints are shown with simulations of the wind turbines super-imposed on a scale appropriate to each photograph.
The appearance of the wind factory is based on the plan of the layout shown on the Cushnie Wind Energy website prior to submission of the planning application to Aberdeenshire Council. This layout is different from that first shown on preliminary documents submitted to the Council in December 2006.
The finalised layout in the actual planning application may again be altered and subsequent events may lead to further changes. For this reason, it is not possible to offer a definitive impression of the wind factory which may appear on your hills in 2009. Nevertheless, considerable effort has been taken to convey the visual impact of this industrial development.
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PHOTOS
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YOUR OPINIONS/OBSERVATIONS
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We will publish a selection of comments and information supporting our case. Along with your views, please give details of your name and email address for verification purposes. We reserve the right omit the content of any text if necessary, but will try to keep this to a minimum. Of particular interest are observations of wildlife or human activity and your opinion of the degree of community involvement. Please Email
A Poem contributed by a resident of Cushnie
ODE TO A WIND TURBINE
The cooling breeze, the rustling trees,
Twists and turns, the rushing burns,
So clean the air, without a care:
It’s near the sky, our Pressendye.
That local weather, the unspoilt heather,
Where creatures thrive, the hills alive,
The birds soar free ow’er any lee:
It’s way up high, our Pressendye.
Then revving trucks make roads deep ruts.
Horrendous noise, construction boys!
Oil is spilling, holes a-drilling:
It’s time to die, our Pressendye.
Trees are sawn, wells are gone,
Away the glades, instead the blades,
The gleaming steel, the spinning wheel:
Your fate is nigh, our Pressendye.
The sun does shine, the turbines whine,
The power flows but nothing grows.
Your future’s lost at any cost:
Goodbye, old friend, our Pressendye
VIEWS PAST
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This is a selection of quotations from people visiting the area in the past. Please send any descriptions you come across using Email with name, email, address, phone number (optional). They may be published at our discretion.
In September 1859, Queen Victoria marvelled at the view from Morven.
Morven is 2,700 feet high, and the view from it more magnificent than can be described, so large and yet so near everything seemed, and such seas of mountains with blue lights, and the colour so wonderfully beautiful. … It was enchanting!
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In 1878, the celebrated American novelist Henry James was also enraptured by the scenery of the Howe of Cromar. He wrote to his sister from Tillypronie House:
It is a beautiful part of the country. … I wish that you might contemplate the glorious view of sweeping hills and gleaming lochs … Nothing can be more breezy and glorious than a ramble on these purple hills and a lounge in the sun-warmed heather.
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From Seton Gordon’s (pioneer naturalist, photographer and folklorist) Scotland – An Anthology:
Morven, the great hill, lies midway between the valleys of the Dee and Don, and from the summit cairn a view of surpassing beauty is obtained in every direction.
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Thomas Pennant, Fellow of the Royal Society and one of the most eminent naturalists of the 18th century, wrote:
One of the great mountains to the West [of Donside] is styled the hill of Morven, is of a stupendous height, and on the side next to Cromar almost perpendicular…The other great mountains appear to sink to a common size, and even Laghin y Gair [Lochnagar] abates of its grandeur.
.jpg "Photo-montage view from Drummy Wood, Tarland, looking north")
