5 Comments

I will listen to the podcast, of course. In the meantime, I should say that I object to the giant turbines less than I do the ghastly lines of wooden pylons you mention. On my recent visit I was shocked by how badly they seemed to litter, and thus diminish, the landscape, none having been present when I came the year before.

Expand full comment
author

Drew says, and I didn’t know this, that those wooden poles are for distributing power within Shetland

Expand full comment

Right. Well, that's what I had kind of assumed. It just seemed to me that with all the digging and disruption that has gone on, at least some of them could have been buried!

Expand full comment
Sep 3Liked by Tom Morton

Perhaps you could invite him to have a conversation for your Substack?

Expand full comment
author

The SSE guy? I fear it would be short and not very electrifying

Expand full comment