{"id":340,"date":"2012-03-24T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2022-12-29T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:17:45","slug":"nessie-desperate-as-monster-loch-ness-hydro-power-scheme-looms-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/24\/nessie-desperate-as-monster-loch-ness-hydro-power-scheme-looms-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Nessie desperate as monster Loch Ness hydro power scheme looms again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>by Mikko on Tue 06 Apr 2010 13:16 BST<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Loch Ness Monster is once again in peril as the failed hydro electric plant at Glendoe is to be repaired. It&#8217;s Europe&#8217;s largest power generating system of its kind (water is pumped in tunnels buried deep underground to take water from a reservoir in the Monadliath mountains to massive turbines by Loch Ness and back again).<\/p><div id=\"lochn-1413143115\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The queen officially opened the scheme last year but it suffered a catastrophic failure just a few weeks later when a massive rockfall blocked the subterranean tunnel. It&#8217;s been closed ever since but now two more by-pass tunnels are to be dug and it may restart operations next year.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kettle, speaking from his Loch Ness project, said &#8220;we are very concerned. Both the massive drilling machine and the huge turbines make a humming sound and vibrations that may affect our elusive cryptid in the loch. We will be monitoring the situation very closely. Nessie is protected by an official <a href=\"https:\/\/lochness.co.uk\/classic\/foi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Act of Parliament<\/a> and must be protected&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mikko on Tue 06 Apr 2010 13:16 BST The Loch Ness Monster is once again in peril as the failed hydro electric plant at Glendoe is to be repaired. It&#8217;s Europe&#8217;s largest power generating system of its kind (water is pumped in tunnels buried deep underground to take water from a reservoir in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/24\/nessie-desperate-as-monster-loch-ness-hydro-power-scheme-looms-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nessie desperate as monster Loch Ness hydro power scheme looms again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}