ISLANDERS have made a “last stand” against plans to build a controversial solar farm by staging a demonstration at the highest point in Cumbrae.
The protest yesterday saw around 250 islanders gather at the Glaid Stone, which is the proposed site for thousands of solar panels, holding aloft paper Dunlins – one of the endangered birds recorded on the site.
The Isle of Cumbrae is one of six islands taking part in a Scottish Government initiative which aims to see them become carbon-neutral by 2040. “We are a small island and at the top of the island, you have got two protected areas for different species of birds, plants, a whole number of things. “People come here and kids get the chance to see birds. We think that if they build this, people won’t come here.
However, he added: “We are talking about it now as we are the little island which has found its voice.
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