{"id":7779,"date":"2023-08-18T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elwoc.org.uk\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:47:00","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/2023\/08\/mission-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction:<br><br>National energy needs are unfairly demanding huge <br>infrastructure developments in small concentrated , often rural areas. Accordingly, national, local governments and developers should be working together with communities to minimise the potential environmental impacts and maximise benefits for those areas. <br> <br><strong>Mission Statement<br> <br>To challenge the incoherent development of large-scale electrical infrastructure in East Lothian, proposed without proper consultation or consideration and to protect our local communities, wildlife and green spaces.  To ensure that the Scottish Government and East Lothian Council act responsibly, following correct protocols, legislation and community concerns to minimise disruption and to force developers to maximise compensation to affected areas.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow us on Facebook  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EastLothianWindsofChange\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EastLothianWindsofChange\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EastLothianWindsofChange<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: National energy needs are unfairly demanding huge infrastructure developments in small concentrated , often rural areas. Accordingly, national, local governments and developers should be working together with communities to minimise the potential environmental impacts and maximise benefits for those areas. Mission Statement To challenge the incoherent development of large-scale electrical infrastructure in East Lothian,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/2023\/08\/mission-statement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission Statement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elwoc","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elwoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}