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       Correspondence with Local Places and Highland Adapts
       By: TinaIrving Date: July 3, 2023, 3:43 am
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       Tina Irving <tinadirving@gmail.com>
       
       09:36 (2 minutes ago)
       
       to Douglas, NORTH, Graham, Harper
       Hi
       Thank you for your response.  You are indeed very helpful.  My
       thoughts are thus, and I am copying Douglas Chisholm of the
       Highland Council, as I spoke to him last week and he is looking
       at the matter of the North Highland Way.
       1.  Your project is an excellent initiative. EIAs are dealt with
       within the planning system, but I just found a floating windfarm
       off Dounreay which it would appear Nature Scot knew nothing
       about.  (Graham Neville - he is on holiday at the moment)
       2.  It does not "fit" with the Highlands and Islands Climate
       Change Hub well, as they do not understand economics.  I had a
       long discussion with the Scottish Government about this last
       week.
       3.  There are the Local Place Plans which THC are looking at at
       the moment.  I emailed Douglas about it this morning.  This
       cannot be done on voluntary effort.
       4.  There is no holistic view of the whole situation in Northern
       Scotland but there is on Orkney.
       5.  There is the matter of the EU Directives on Climate Change
       and Sustainable Tourism not being met, as they sit with SEPA.  I
       had a discussion with planning about that some time ago.
       6.  There are insufficient resources both within the Highland
       Council and Highland Adapts, therefore the whole project of
       NetZero, Adaptation, Zero Waste etc will fail.
       As an economist, that is my view.  I have refused to do any
       further voluntary work.  It is unsustainable.
       No doubt Mr. Chisholm will deal with this.  He, like the Access
       Officer, is a very capable and experienced Council Officer, and,
       like his predecessor Colin Simpson very approachable.
       Meanwhile, the Global Climate Change Week goes ahead.
       www.tinagostravelling.wordpress.
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