Save Cowal’s Hills (SCH) is an umbrella organisation which brings together local people who wish to protect our cherished natural landscape from inappropriate and damaging development. It was organized in 2014 in response to the proposal by PNE Wind for an enormous industrial scale wind farm (Bachan Burn) on the hill-tops above Dunoon. Proposals for smaller but similarly located wind farms (the Corlarach Hill and Black Craig schemes) had been rejected in 2009 by two separate Public Local Inquiries as being inappropriate for the location and damaging to visual amenity and the local economy. People were understandably distressed, and outraged, that the Bachan Burn proposal was being put forward only five years after smaller and less intrusive proposals had been officially rejected.

Save Cowal´s Hills is now concentrating on the newest and most serious threats thus far faced concerning the beauty of our landscapes, wildlife and more.

These threats now appearing in the menacing form of the Giant´s Burn Windfarm, and additionally an even larger proposal for the Inveroachlain Windfarm, both of which have the potential to completely devastate and destroy the unquestionable beauty of our region.