You can also email your local politicians raising concerns about Berwick Bank. Here’s a template but feel free to put it into your own words:
I am writing to express my serious concern for Berwick Bank offshore windfarm, a huge development planned near internationally important seabird colonies off Scotland’s east coast. If it is built, this development could become the single deadliest windfarm in the world for birds. Scientists predict it could kill tens of thousands of endangered seabirds over its lifetime.
Renewable energy is vital in the fight against climate change. But Berwick Bank is sited in simply the worst possible place. It is planned close to the Bass Rock, one of the biggest colonies of Northern Gannets in the world, and the Isle of May, home to thousands of breeding Puffins, Kittiwakes and Guillemots. Berwick Bank would be built over a key feeding ground where these seabirds search for food for their chicks. Many will die through collision with the turbines or face starvation from avoiding the blades.
We can meet our climate targets without doing irreplaceable harm to wildlife. There are many other alternative developments which would together deliver more energy than Berwick Bank without such catastrophic impacts on seabirds.
As my representative, I hope you will please do all you can to help stop Berwick Bank. Action for climate and nature must go hand in hand. We must support offshore wind which works with nature, not against it.
