Call for wave energy body to be based in Western Isles

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...y-body-to-be-based-in-western-isles.119757377

The new body charged with developing Scotland's wave energy technology should be based in Lewis and not in Inverness or Edinburgh, according to an island politician.
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) is to receive a total of £14.3 million from the Scottish Government over the next 13 months, it was announced last week.
Now Western Isles Labour Westminster candidate Alasdair Morrison has called for the new body to be located in Lewis so that it does not become "another distant quango living off peripheral resources".

WES was set up in the wake of the collapse of Edinburgh-based Pelamis Wave Power which went into administration in November, as well as Aquamarine shedding staff and Siemens' withdrawal from Marine Current Turbines.

In addition the Herald revealed on Saturday that the £10m Saltire Prize to build Scotland's first commercial wave or tidal energy system was in trouble after industry insiders admitted none of the competitors was capable of winning it. Mr Morrison, a former MSP and Scottish Executive minister, said the prize had "raised entirely false hopes about the wave power sector"

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