Loch Ness Glen Earrach Energy planned scheme prompts concerns from Ness District Salmon Fishery Board

November 3rd, 2025

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Information provided by the team behind proposals for a major new hydro development utilising the waters of Loch Ness has only strengthened opposition to the scheme from one group.

The Ness District Salmon Fishery Board (NDSFB) has formally responded to Glen Earrach Energy’s (GEE) additional information paper submitted to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit.

It accuses the company of using “erroneous and conflicting data” and failing “to address or even acknowledge the likely devastating impacts of its proposals on the existing ecosystem”.

NDSFB director Brian Shaw said: “Far from reassuring us, Glen Earrach’s latest Additional Information paper only serves to reinforce our initial assessment that the development will have drastic and irreversible ecological, and other, impacts on Loch Ness and the Rivers.

“The conflicting information provided by Glen Earrach’s June and September submissions regarding the impact of flow reductions in the River Ness during the critical spring period is particularly concerning.

 

 

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Far from reassuring us, Glen Earrach’s latest Additional Information paper only serves to reinforce our initial assessment that the development will have drastic and irreversible ecological, and other, impacts on Loch Ness and the River Ness.

The conflicting information provided by Glen Earrach’s June and September submissions regarding the impact of flow reductions in the River Ness during the critical spring period is particularly concerning.

Brian Shaw

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