The North Sea has long supported local economies – and with offshore wind becoming a popular choice of renewable energy.
James Marriott is an artist, activist and naturalist who works as part of Platform. He is co-author, with Terry Macalister, of Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation.
Facing a half-interested audience sheltering from the wind, his task is to explain the great benefits that stand to accrue on the back of the Moray West wind farm that is moving towards construction far out in the Moray Firth, east of Inverness.All the data, it seems, is on display in the exhibition. Off the coast of Caithness, in 150 feet of water, 65 turbines will be erected over 110 square miles of seabed—an area the size of Bristol.
The project will employ 60 personnel working out of its port base in Buckie, to the east of Portsoy. Everything about this bright future is clear, apparently. And then the question of land ownership arises. Who owns the seabed that the turbines stand upon? Who owns the farmland that the cable crosses once it reaches the shore? Neither of these things is revealed in the community exhibition.
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