CALLING ALL YOUNG FILM-MAKERS AND MEDIA STUDENTS FROM THE BORDERS - Could you help us?
Action Against Pylons Scottish Borders Alliance is a coalition of eleven community action groups wanting to persuade the Scottish and UK Governments to find a better way of achieving Net Zero, and in so doing, save the Borders countryside for future generations. There ARE alternatives, but no one will listen.
We want young people, those in our communities who will inherit this massive and catastrophic mistake, to help us stand up to the giant energy companies who want to destroy our landscape. This is a ‘David and Goliath’ moment!
To help us do this, we would like to produce a film and a series of vlogs that record the personal perspectives of local people and the anguish they are feeling at the prospect of vast swathes of the Scottish Borders being industrialised, effectively making Scotland one great big giant power station, serving the energy needs of England. Scotland is already generating more than enough energy for the Scottish people, and there are far better ways for us to achieve NET ZERO including sub-sea, hydro, nuclear and undergrounding, as is happening in other countries. But our governments are not interested in using anything but existing, eighty-year-old technology.
It is young people who will live with these bad Government decisions, so we think it is very important that we engage with them now, so they understand how it will affect them and their own children’s children. We would love this intergenerational project to get off the ground so it can help raise awareness about the plight of the Borders and Scotland more generally and deflect some of the expensive advertising being put out by the Government and their tax-payer subsidised energy companies which put forward untruths about how their plans will lower energy prices.
Please share this idea with the young people you know, and the lecturers and teachers from local colleges and schools who would be interested in getting involved in what is a very live and topical project that could add to a young people’s professional creative portfolios.
We also hope to engage with a collection of industry professionals who will support young people in developing the skills and knowledge they need in the exciting world of current affairs and news reporting.