'Electricity, Wind Farms and You' report, with presentations and questions

09 February 2015

Tuesday  10 February 2015

Fortrose Academy Theatre   7.30 

A capacity audience filled Fortrose Academy Theatre on Tuesday night for TBI's energy debate.  The evening began with short talks from Andy Kerr, from the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, and Steven Watson, from Community Energy Scotland, addressing respectively the more technical and the community involvement aspects of the topic.

Left to right: Steven Watson, Helen Houston, Louise Batchelor, Andy Kerr, Rhoda Grant MSP, Patrick Harvie MSP.  Photo Julian Paren.

They were then joined by Patrick Harvie MSP (co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party), Rhoda Grant MSP (Scottish Labour Party) and Helen Houston (Development Officer for the Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust), for a question and answer session skilfully chaired by former BBC Scotland Environment Correspondent Louise Batchelor.  It was perhaps unfortunate that there was not time for any unscripted questions from the floor inaddition to those submitted in advance. Lively informal discussion over tea and home baking brought a very successful evening to a close. 

If a theme emerged from the event it was the value of participating in local energy and other projects in helping to bring a greater sense of purpose to our lives and increasing our sense of belonging to a flourishing local community.
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Additional information
        About the panel
        The main speakers' talks
                Andy Kerr                 Steven Watson
        The  questions and answers