Sir Jeremy Isaacs



BIOGRAPHY

Sir Jeremy was born in Glasgow, and served in the Highland Light Infantry and the Royal Scots Fusiliers.  His credits as a television producer of award-winnong documentary series include The World at War (1973), Ireland - a Television History (1980), and Cold War (1998).  He served on the board of Glasgow's Year of Architecture and Design, 1999, and chaired the government-appointed panel which selected Liverpool as European Capital of Culture for 2008. He married the arts journalist Gillian Widdicombe in 1988.

SUPPORT FOR SWAG

I am in favour of all sorts of projects to create clean and renewable energy, in various forms and on appropriate sites.

I am against constructing 27 giant wind turbines on the hills behind Edinbane, where they will dominate what the Highland Council itself proposed as a "designated landscape of great value", overwhelm the crofting village of Edinbane, threaten the developing eagle population, and undermine the livings of those who work in Scotland's most important industry, tourism.

SWAG has subjected Amec's crude, misleading proposal, backed by a wholly inadequate Environmental Impact Assessment, to thorough, critical scrutiny. It is not too late for the Highland Council to withold final consent, or for Amec to withdraw. If the Edinbane windfarm goes ahead, it will set damaging precedents for the whole of Scotland.