Shetland Spaceport Shot Down Over Historic Site Concerns
Shetland Space Centre’s (SSC) plans to build a spaceport on the old Royal Air Force Skaw radar station has been shot down, spelling potential doom for the project and Lockheed Martin’s plans to launch satellites from site in northern Scotland. The Shetland Times reports.
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) said it would cause “extensive and adverse impact on the cultural significance” of Skaw radar station.
However, SSC chief executive Frank Strang has hit back saying he would “vigorously contest” the refusal.
Mr Strang said he was “greatly surprised” by the decision, claiming HES had “done nothing to preserve the site for the last 50 years”.
Skaw is the UK’s most northerly Second World War radar station and protected as a scheduled monument of national importance.
The proposed space centre would be built almost entirely with in the RAF radar station site.
It would require the removal of nine buildings, including air raid shelters, guard huts and those associated with the radar system.
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Well no more history for that location. Invoking the historical significance of a radar station is a tad silly. I’ll bet every scope dope who ever interfaced with that RADAR would have been tickled pink to find out their grand kids and great grand kids were going to launch rockets to space from that location. It’s probably just a bunch of NIMBY’s who want to say “no”. Well they can say that. They win.
Somehow, I don’t think the last word has been said on this topic.
But it is true that modern Scots are mainly socialist wankers. If enough of them really want to cast the entire country in Lucite and make it the world’s largest paperweight I suppose there’s no stopping them.