1. Overview
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Session 10 is Tanya, representative from Conserve the Cairngorms Campaign. Tanya was violently opposed to the original mountain railway development and will do her utmost to make sure the extension doesn't go ahead. She feels it would be economically unviable, environmentally destructive and would reduce the range and quality of visitor experiences. She claims lots of people would be put off visiting Scotland because of the way we are seen to be treating our finest mountain areas. She points to the ridiculous "closed system" employed in the original mountain railway development, comparing the top station to a prison and highlighting the many newspaper headlines calling it "Barlinnie of the Highlands". Oh, Tanya could go on and on for a very long time about this ill conceived mountain railway extension and she'll fight the proposals all the way. |
Many
environmentalists feel very strongly about the damage that tourism
development can cause.
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