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DOUBLE CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR ISSUE
Issue 207 - December 2009 and January 2010e-mail edition
KINTYRE ON RECORD
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CONTENTS
-LICE-SENSE TO FARM-PEOPLE IN BIG HOUSES SHOULDN’T . . .-COMMUNITY COUNCIL ADMINISTRATIVE IMPERATIVES-COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING-AIRTRICITY-WIND-FARM GET-TOGETHER-OTHER NOVEMBER MEETINGS-CARE & REPAIR-WREATH-LAYING-KINTYRE U3A - UNIVERSITY OF THE 3RD AGE-OCTOBER RAINFALL-EVA & VICTIM SUPPORT-CARRADALE - NAOMI MITCHISON’S ESSAYS AND JOURNALISM-THE KINTYRE MAGAZINE - ISSUE 66-BOOKS AND MAGAZINES FOR SALE - Back copies of 
The Kintyre Magazine
-THE HISTORY OF U-BOAT "U-33" IN SCOTLAND-JAMES CAW Sr.
 
-THE BUCHANAN FAMILY OF CARRADALE ESTATE-JOSHUA-CHERYL GREENWOOD 1967 - 2009-DONALD KELLY SEES RED BUT NOT REID - A LETTER TO ALAN REID MP-FORTHCOMING EVENTS - IN THE CARRADALE VILLAGE HALL-SIXTEEN TO THIRTY ?-GLOBAL WARMING : A SOLUTION ?-ROOM FOR ONE OR MORE ON TOP-THE CHIMERA OF COMMUNITY PLANNING-WIND-FARM TRUST AUTUMN GRANTS-GRACE WINS AGAIN
LICE-SENSE TO FARM
At long last Lakeland Marine have progressed their application for a fish farm inKilbrannan Sound to the Planning Hearing stage.Fairly promptly at 10.30am on Friday 6th November the Council’s traditional defensive‘square’ of seated participants developed into a distorted hexagon with the galaxy of Argyll & Bute Councillors on two sides of this distinctly unfamiliar shape. While theyalmost faced Richard Kerr of the Council’s Planning Department and his assistant, theapplicants, consultees and supporters, sat on a fourth side and the objectors and theirsupporters on a fifth.In an unacceptable move 120 local residents and interested visitors were crampedtogether behind the competing parties and would have provided distinct evacuationsproblems in the event of fire. While the hall stage was available for the computerpresentation, the planning department chose to stand it on the hall floor - out of sight of most of the audience. A further problem was inaudible comments from one or twospeakers who failed to use the microphone system, and from almost all those unfamiliarwith the technique who did.
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Richard Kerr provided a competent description of the application, its relevance to thearea plan and to the problems inherent in fish farms - all that the Councillors needed tomake a decision, but with ‘community engagement’ the name on the planning bottle, thecontents had to emptied out and prodded to ensure that no foreign or dead bodies werepart of the mix. Reference was made to the planning history of the site, from the timethat Mike Foreman, James Alan, Archie McMillan and Sandy Galbraith set up Ocean ShellsLtd through the interest shown by another party, to the transfer agreement with LakelandMarine, and to the change from shell fish, to cod and finally to salmon. He pointed outthat Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency had noobjection if all the relevant safeguards are observed. Plans for the fish farm include 14,32 metre, tanks and a 14sq m feeding and accommodation barge sitting 5.8m above thewater when empty and between 4.5m and 5.5 m when in use.Colin Blair from Lakeland went into great detail about the plan, and the safeguards theywere obliged to provide. Dr John Webster, a biologist involved with fish for over 35 years,gave additional scientific support, as did two members of a local family - Colin Oman, whohad been involved in helping Ocean Shells Ltd with their application, and Findlay Omanwho is involved in a net manufacturing business - he described the high quality productsmanufactured for Lakeland.Shelagh Cameron of East Kintyre Community Council, speaking for the statutoryconsultees, made it clear that the application could bring jobs and attract youngerfamilies to the area. Stuart Irvine, of ‘Network Carradale’ spoke of the recentimprovements to the harbour and the need to ensure that its facilities attract other users.Mrs Logan, representing 73 local residents and 129 visitors associated with the NorthEast Kintyre Consortium, spoke for the objectors and on the dangers to wild fish spawningin local rivers. Mrs Jane Wright, of the Argyll District Salmon Fishing Board with a wideexperience of the problems sometimes associated with fish farms, gave a long and highlydetailed account of the Salmon Fishing Boards work and of its concern over thedevelopment.An interval was called at 12.40 pm and with Councillors leaving the hall it was assumedthat the planning hearing would adjourn for lunch. This proved not to be the case and asa result Colin Burgess opposition to the scheme was not heard by this reporter.On returning to the hall at 1.15 pm there was a delay until the Councillors, returned at1.45 pm and Richard Kerr by 2.10 pm. Subsequently questions came from most of theattending Councillors; local Councillors spoke expressing the view that they were infavour of the project so long as all safeguards were observed. Councillor Rory Colvilleexpressed particular concern over the box-like shape of the accommodation barge andexpressed the hope that its colour would mitigate some of the adverse criticisms of asimilar barge visiting Campbeltown earlier this year.Perhaps the most significant turning point over the danger of disease from farmedsalmon infecting the wild population in the Carra was Shelagh Cameron’s statement thatthe stock of salmon in the Carra had been twice augmented in the past twenty years bythe release of farm salmon. While this in no way answers the criticism of diseased farmstock contaminating wild salmon, there is also a chance that disease-free farm salmonescapees could be infected by local wild salmon.As a regular event on the social calendar it is to be recommended, encouraging, as it didon this occasion, those with flu to spread the good news about, those recently returnedfrom hip operations to offer their advice and for visitors and holiday home-owners to seeto what lengths a rural community will do to encourage local prosperity.
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