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Events and Demonstrations By Hands Off Our Hills

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Community Engagement Event | NEWTON STEWART

Community Engagement Event Announcement in Newton Stewart at the McMillian Hall in Dashwood Square on Wednesday, 1st May 2024, between 3:00pm and 7:00pm.

Come along to the McMillan Hall situated in Dashwood Square, Newton Stewart, any time between 3:00pm and 7:00pm and participate in our upcoming Community Engagement Event.

This Community Engagement Event presents an opportunity for you to delve into the potential ramifications of the colossal industrial turbines, spanning heights of 200 to 250 meters, on various aspects such as the environment, wildlife, dark sky status, heightened flood risks throught the Cree Valley Community Area, as well as the potential impacts on personal health and the well-being of fellow residents across the Cree Valley Community.

Please also take the time to complete our comprehensive Community Engagement Questionnaire, ensuring your viewpoints and opinions of the matter are duly noted. Whether you harbour support or dissent towards the installation of Industrial Turbine Sites within the Cree Valley Community Area, your input holds significance and your voices counts.

Our Community Engagement Event allows you to uncover ‘The Facts’ often overlooked by the Scottish Government and companies such as RES and Energiekontor.

So why not join us, if you have a spare hour or two and partake?

Tea, coffee, and biscuits on the house!

Community Engagement Event | Newton Stewart | Cree Valley Community

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RES Community Liaison Group – 09/04/2024 Minutes


RES has instituted a Community Liaison Group (CLG) with the objective of establishing a platform for deliberation and the exchange of information. The primary purpose of this group is to foster an efficient channel of communication among RES, the local community, and stakeholders. Membership in the CLG will comprise locally elected representatives, community groups, and other pertinent stakeholders.

It is imperative to underscore that Hands Off Our Hills maintains NO affiliation or alignment with any of the member groups or participants associated with the RES Community Liaison Group. This initiative is perceived by us as a farcical public relations endeavour employed by RES to modify their planning application in response to community concerns and to gather additional information regarding opposition sentiments.

Consequently, it should come as no surprise that we will persist as vocal opponents of this corporate undertaking.

Hands Off Our Hills has uploaded a copy of these minutes to our servers and the 9th April 2024 : 7:00pm – 9:00pm are now available for viewing by clicking on the image below:

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RES Community Liaison Group – 27/02/2024 Minutes


RES has instituted a Community Liaison Group (CLG) with the objective of establishing a platform for deliberation and the exchange of information. The primary purpose of this group is to foster an efficient channel of communication among RES, the local community, and stakeholders. Membership in the CLG will comprise locally elected representatives, community groups, and other pertinent stakeholders.

It is imperative to underscore that Hands Off Our Hills maintains NO affiliation or alignment with any of the member groups or participants associated with the RES Community Liaison Group. This initiative is perceived by us as a farcical public relations endeavour employed by RES to modify their planning application in response to community concerns and to gather additional information regarding opposition sentiments.

Consequently, it should come as no surprise that we will persist as vocal opponents of this corporate undertaking.

Hands Off Our Hills has uploaded a copy of these minutes to our servers and the 27th Feb 2024 : 7:00pm – 9:10pm are now available for viewing by clicking on the image below:

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Glentrool Public Engagement Event

Glentrool Public Engagement Event – Glentrool Hive.

Hands Off Our Hills held our first Public Engagement Event on a bright and sunny afternoon on Thursday 7th March 2024 at the Glentrool Hive.

This event was very well attended by members of the public who came out all afternoon to view our notice boards filled with information with regards to how the turbines are made and how it would affect the local area.  The Public were invited to also view a video montage of various viewpoints before and after the turbines were erected.  

The consensus was general outrage there was such a planning application in the pipeline.  Lots of our questionnaires were filled out with peoples overall opinions, which we will view and create our objections from. 

Our Co-ordinator Kenny Campbell said:

‘I’d like to thank everyone who turned out to the community information event at The Hive in Glentrool yesterday/today. We’re loving having the conversations about why the three proposals are wrong. What we’re also learning and excited about is that folk are informing themselves.  Rest assured Hands Off Our Hills will be here to challenge these money grabbing power companies and their never-ending line of applications for these monstrosities for as long as necessary.’ 

Our next Public Engagement Event will be at Whithorn in the SMCC on the 21 March between 3pm and 7pm.  If you are around the area, please come along for a cuppa and say hello and voice your opinions to us. 

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Community liaison group RES – 17th Jan 2024

Community liaison GROUP MEETING Tomorrow – Wednesday 17th January 2024

We know how you all love a get together, particularly when it involves letting those lovely folk from RES know what you think and feel about their awful proposal for our hills.

They may have been upset about our refusal to join their “community liaison group” (CLG) and that might be the reason it slipped their mind to let the COMMUNITY know the first CLG is tomorrow. It’s fine, we forgive them for this tiny oversight.

However, though it will be dark and cold if you’d like to come along to the Macmillan Hall, tomorrow (Wednesday 17 January 2024) from 5.30pm ish there will be an opportunity to show the company, elected members and other voluntary CLG members your total rejection of these plans. Very short notice but we only found out about this a couple of hours ago.

The demonstration will be respectful but clear regarding our message, no doors will be blocked but we’ll let people know we won’t allow this devastation to happen.

Bring a flask, yer bonnet and yer voice.

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