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What you can do: 

1.  Write to your local councillors making your views about the proposed windfarm known. Your local councillors can be found here https://www.mysociety.org/wehelpyou/contact-your-local-councillor/

2. Complete the Community Council survey about the proposed wind farm so that your Community Council can represent the views of its local community, the survey can be found here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CaSHWindfarmCC

 A selection of Possible Questions for 

Force 9 and EDF

• What are the plans for the protection of the wildcats that currently live on the Hills?
• What are the plans for the protection of the red kites that are in the area?
• How does this proposal align with the Aberdeenshire Local Development plan which states that "summits and ridges are particularly sensitive to wind turbines and developments will change the character of the countryside"?
• Where will the operations and maintenance be run from?
• How many local (within 20 Km) jobs would be created during the operational phase if the development is approved?
• Can you tell me about the lighting that will be required on the turbines, the buildings and the battery farm. How are you intending to protect the dark skies currently available in the area?
• How much local supply is there of the operational equipment? (facilities, equipment, maintenance contracts, maintenance materials, etc)?
• How much bespoke local employment and skills training is anticipated?
• What were the results of the last consultation? Was the general feeling positive or negative?
• When are you expecting to submit the planning application?
• What are the guidelines controlling how the Community Benefit Fund can be spent, and who makes those guidelines?
• How does Community Ownership work? What percentage could the community own, how does one go about this?
• How is the power to be exported (route and pylons)?
• How much constraint payments are in the EDF business plan for the development?
• What is the anticipated annual pre-tax operating profit expected in the EDF

Plans for a huge new wind mast at the Correen Hills, designed as a precursor to a wind farm, have sparked outrage among rural Aberdeenshire residents.

EDF Renewables operates a number of wind farms across the UK, and wants to add another at the beauty spot north of Alford.

The company says the Correen Hills mast, which would be 20m bigger than Big Ben, could set the stage for a possible 10 turbines being erected.

The full article is the Press & Journal

Our first public meeting took place at Tullynessle Hall on 12th June 2024 at 7pm.  

Our Chairperson Chris Hamlet and member CaSHWIG member Liam Smyth presented a summary of the information that the group had been able to gather since it's inception.  They outlined the facts that were available about the proposed development, overlaid by research on the Hill of Fare planning application and also revealed that new information had been recently gathered from community councils that suggested a scaling back of the original development.

There was over 50 people in the room who engaged in discussion and Q&A, posted their thoughts on the issues as they see them on feedback boards and who were able to view scale photographs of the development taken from vantage points around the local area.

We very much appreciate the contribution of all that took part.  If you have not already signed up to receive our newsletter and updates, please do so by submitting your email address in the 'Contact Us' section.  

Please join us at our next series of public meetings taking place at Clatt on 16th July and Kennethmont on 24th July, both starting at 7pm.  

Please like, share and bring your friends and neighbours along to find out more about the proposed wind farm being planned by EDF for development on the Coreen Hill on the left side of the Suie Road.

The CaSHWIG team have been researching, engaging with others and we have discovered lots of information regarding on-shore wind farm developments like this one. 

We would like to share that knowledge with you.  Come along to hear about the impact it will have in our community if this development is approved by the Scottish Government.

A BBC News video clip of a 65m turbine blade being transported.  The blade in the clip is only 65m, which is 15m shorter than those currently in scope for the Correen Hills Windfarm.  Only time and a formal application from the developers will reveal the actual size being planned for the Correen and Suie Hills development, but this video reveals the scale of the transport convoy required for the move.  Road realignment is inevitable, power and communication lines are often removed and traffic diversions are certain to operate to provide the access required.

Moment giant wind turbine blade carried through Hawick - BBC News