Current Eilean Eisdeal Projects : Scottish Gas Green Streets
An online Presentation regarding our Scottish Gas Green Streets project is now available at www.argylearchitecture.co.uk/
First Consultation Meeting: 15 Jan 2010
The first community consultation meeting for The Scottish Gas Green Streets award to Eilean Eisdeal took place on Friday 15th January 2010 in Easdale Island Community Hall. Presentations from Jack Welch of Scottish Gas and Waseem Hussain of Argyle Architecture Ltd were followed by a mind mapping session led by Argyll and Bute MSP Jim Mather.
This is a very exciting opportunity for the island and the project has already had fantastic press coverage. Eilean Eisdeal entered the Scottish Gas Green Streets competition through an initial online application and were then shortlisted to make a presentation, at very short notice, at The Scottish Gas Energy Academy in Hamilton. The directors were delighted to secure £130,000 towards renewable energy solutions for the island. The presentation included a small 15kw wind turbine, a heat pump using sea water in one of the flooded quarries to heat the community hall and museum and investigating energy efficiency and solutions for the households on the island.
The meeting was well attended by members of the community and representatives from council departments, local media and other funders. Kevin Roxburgh, director for Scottish Gas and Carol Aitken, head of PR for Scottish Gas were also present. The mind mapping session allowed everyone to contribute their thoughts and ideas to questions being asked. The results of this session are available for download in PDF format using the link below.
Second Consultation Meeting: 31 Jan 2010
The second community consultation meeting held on 31st January was well attended. Mike MacKenzie and Waseem Hussain showcased the problems faced on Easdale heating and insulating our homes many of which are original quarriers cottages built over 200 years ago. Scottish Gas Project manager Jack Welch also spoke about the residential part of the project and volunteers were asked to sign up to the project if they wanted to participate in helping the community reduce their energy consumption.
Third Consultation Meeting: 11 April 2010
The third community consultation meeting was held on 11th April to discuss the proposals in greater depth. Mike MacKenzie made a short introduction summarising points raised in previous meetings and Easdale’s need for renewable energy solutions. Dr Arthur Butler from the Centre for Alternative Technology provided in depth information regarding wind turbines, solar and heat pumps with Rod MacNeal from a company called Solar and Wind on hand to answer questions about the proposed installations. Jack Welch presented the community with three proposed sites for a wind turbine and discussed points that would need to be addressed before deciding on a final site.
Videos of the presentation are available to view on our video page
