Cromarty Rising

In case you missed this, an article in this weeks Highland News announcing the arrival of Nairnshire Rising: http://www.highland-news.co.uk/News/New-group-launched-from-Nairn-to-boost-campaign-against-transfer-of-oil-between-ships-on-the-Moray-Firth-11052017.htm Article also made it to the Inverness Courier: http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/New-group-launched-from-Nairn-to-boost-campaign-against-transfer-of-oil-between-ships-on-the-Moray-Firth-11052017.htm The team have been busy already attending the Nairn Harbour open day on Saturday with a busy stream to their stall all day.

 The final answer from our short series on recent questions posed in the Scottish Parliament by Green MSP, Mark Ruskell. This time the STS regs were amended and the Secretary of State for Transport would appear to have forgotten to consult the Scottish Ministers. It says it all really. Question S5W-08387: Mark Ruskell, Mid Scotland and Fife, […]

Yet another from our short series on recent questions posed in the Scottish Parliament by Green MSP, Mark Ruskell – this times, sometimes if you ask the right question, you don’t even get a decent answer! Question S5W-08389: Mark Ruskell, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party, Date Lodged: 24/03/2017 To ask the Scottish Government which […]

Another from our short series on recent questions posed in the Scottish Parliament by Green MSP, Mark Ruskell. That same old answer  – STS is reserved and the habitats regs don’t apply to reserved matters. However, it would appear that Mark asked the wrong question. If he had asked the same question with regards to […]

A short series on recent questions posed in the Scottish Parliament by Green MSP, Mark Ruskell. So SNH are the only consultation body defined in the UK STS regulations. However, the regulations also allow for other consultees to be named – in the case of the CFPA application, SEPA, RSPB and the Highland Council. Lets […]

Some interesting research published by St Andrews University a few days ago suggesting underwater noise can cause temporary hearing loss in seals. This followed as study in the Moray Firth and suggested that noise can affect how sea mammals such as whales, dolphins and seals find food and communicate with each other. STS will of course […]

…….and now Nairnshire Rising has been formed. Following the success of Cromarty Rising, our colleagues in Nairnshire want their voices heard. We look forward to working with them over the coming months.                  

Tonight some insight from Nairn regarding the Grigor Lido project and the potential impact of STS on it.

Here’s an interesting email from Linda Rosborough, former director of Marine Scotland. This was in response to the official complaint about Marine Scotland’s failure to act, signed by four Highland Councillors. She wanted to say that MS were not formally consulted – we know now from the MS FOI requests that this is not true […]

As the dust settles after the council elections we would like to congratulate Cllrs Craig Fraser, Jennifer Barclay and Gordon Adam on their election to the Highland Council representing the Black Isle ward. Cllr Fraser has been an outspoken opponent of STS from the start, Cllr Barclay has been silent, however we were delighted to […]