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The latest Transition Black Isle news can be found below.

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TBI proposals submitted for potential BIP Landscape Partnership funding bid

04 October 2016

The Landscape Partnership scheme is a Heritage Lottery fund initiative to provide potentially large amounts of funding (up to £3 million) for schemes designed to help conserve landscapes and ...
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Government overturns Council's rejection of Fracking

03 October 2016

News and views from The Guardian  6 October 2016 "Sajid Javid has overturned Lancashire council’s rejection of a fracking site, paving the way for shale company Cuadrilla to dri...
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First fracked gas arrives at Grangemouth

28 September 2016

GMB union says banning import would be a recipe for mass unemployment in central Scotland. See this week's press reports on our  Environment / Fracking  page.  
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Successful Transition Scotland weekend at Cromarty

10 September 2016

On September 10th and 11th TBI hosted Transition Scotland’s 2016 annual gathering at the Old Brewery in Cromarty.  Besides TBI directors and members, representatives were present from Tr...
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We are part of the rapidly expanding worldwide Transition Towns movement. The Black Isle is a peninsula of about 100 sq miles ENE of Inverness in Scotland, UK.