Far north MP Jamie Stone speaks out in the House of Commons over the multi-billion wave of renewable energy projects in the Highlands
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00:00which party she's a member of, she's called Helen Crawford and she has very bravely been standing up and saying I think we need to have a way of structuring this that takes the communities with us, that we're not imposing it from on high in the communities and she's referring to batteries, she's referring to, you know, grid improvements or whatever and nobody's saying that they don't believe in getting to the next area. Yes we do, but let's do it taking people with us.
00:25I would just drop a little hint to the Minister and indeed to the Honourable Member for Aberdeen North's colleagues in Edinburgh that there will be a meeting of a large group of community councils on the 14th of June in Invernessshire and I think that what they say and what they're, they're reasonable people and actually under Scottish law the community council is actually statutory consultancy on planning matters and I would really strongly advise that if the Minister would be,
00:55I'd be very grateful if we could just take a look at what comes out of that because I think that will be helpful to both the UK government and the Scottish government.
01:02Yes, let's have renewable energy, absolutely, but let's get...