Just on my way to bed and it dawned on me that I've written too many posts this past week out of frustration and it maybe gives the wrong impression of Skellefteå. And just because it feels like, at the moment anyway, the kommun is stood over the village and is just taking a huge dump, there are things to write about that are pretty cool.
One of those things is the direct flight from Skellefteå to Stansted and because I'm English, I'm not going to refer to it as London Stansted as it's a long way from London, even if you can get a direct train. Still, it's close enough.
I don't know where to start this post, so I figure I'll just write it as it happened, as it seems to be the most sensible place.
I went to the football pitch earlier to help the clean up after winter; picking up branches and making a pile. Things were fun and it was nice to see so many people from the village out helping. It was basically refreshing, that as a small community, people come out and help. It's one of the best things about living in Bygdsiljum.
I put a poll up on the Bygdsiljum homepage recently asking a simple question; do you want this wind farm around Bygdsiljum. The results actually surprised me.
Skellefteå kommun surprised a few people when plans for the wind farm to surround Bygdsiljum were announced. And even though I know it's not the kommun directly putting these up and that even their own energy company are not exactly investing heavily in this form of energy creation, the kommun do decide where these can be placed and give permission.
I think the surprise came because nobody knew about it and the people telling us about them a few weeks ago as good as said this was happening, without real consultation.
I suspect also, although I'm not sure, the kommun are also making money from this. In fact, I can only see that as the reason for doing this and I think that makes it even worse.
