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The far view of the Jura Distillery. The Production The Isle of Jura distillery produces an impressive 2. The malt conveyor of the Jura Distillery.
The Pot Stills The distillery has four pot stills: two wash and two spirit. The Pot Stills of the Jura Distillery. Maltings Isle of Jura has sourced its malts from the Port Ellen maltings facility on the nearby Isle of Islay since The Warehouse Isle of Jura has a series of on-site bonded racked and dunnage warehouses in which the spirit is aged.
A warehouse of the Jura Distillery. Chronological rating history. Orwell had first visited the island in and had an almost fatal encounter in the Gulf of Corryvreckan that separates Jura from the smaller island of Scarba to the north. One day in , Blair had taken a break from writing to sail with his nephews and nieces. However, their boat was caught by the whirlpool that the gulf is famous for and, despite losing the boat, Blair and the youngsters managed to reach a small rock where they were later picked up by a fishing boat.
Blair returned to Barnhill where he finished his novel, although had things turned out differently on that day in the gulf the world might not have read about Big Brother. The Corryvreckan Whirlpool as it is called is caused by an underwater mountain reaching almost to the surface of the strait causing the whirlpool to activate when the tides change. Especially with a strong westerly wind and upcoming tide the whirlpool is best visible.
Jura Hotel runs Landrover trips from Craighouse to Kinuachdrach. The story of Corryvreckan is that of a Scandinavian Prince, named Breackan, who fell in love with a princess of the isles. Her father consented to the marriage on the condition that Breackan showed his courage by anchoring his boat in the whirlpool for three days and three nights. Breackan accepted the challenge and returned to Norway where he had three cables made: one of hemp, one of wool and of of maidens hair.
The maidens of Norway willingly cut off their long hair to make the rope for their prince. It was believed that their purity and innocence would give the rope strength to stand the strain.
Breackan returned to the Isle of Jura and anchored in the Corryvreckan whirlpool. On the first day the rope of hemp broke; on the second day the woollen rope parted; on the third day all went well until the evening when the rope of hair finally gave way because one of the maidens who had given her hair had been unfaithful. Amidst myth and legend there is usually a fragment of truth.
When the cave was excavated some years ago, a stone coffin was found. Was it the coffin of some prince drowned in the Corryvreckan Whirlpool? No one knows. All of this in a new level playing field, which I have outlined above, and properly funded from rural programs and a Green Bank. The whole tax situation in rural areas needs to be reformed and made relevant and realistic. But land stewardship, bio-diversity and new ideas for the land should attract proper support.
An example is the so-called national parks. The Cairngorm one would be a special place in nature and extent, even in Fennoscandia, but it is not owned or serviced in a manner like Sarek, Padjulanta or Laponnia. It is in fact largley privately owned by individuals and NGOs and the political class see it as a site for urban and light industrial development.
Here is an oxymoron bordering on farce if ever there was one. Where is the political will to give us real national parks with a real national parks and wildlife service? I do not wish to see any kind of income , I wish to see the massive source of the public revenue that is societally created Land Rental Value being returned as public revenue instead of being diverted to the private pockets of the land monopoly.
I see that I hate the T word so badly that I left it out after income—yes income should be left alone! Hope your last paragraph is correct HF, and that this hope will triumph over my 30 year experience with the SNP.
My comment was angled at the relatively unchanged concentration of land in the hands of so few outright owners. Ron, I think we are convergent. The ecological, social and economic issues of land, and production, all merge, in any holistic analysis. What I am keen on is some serious social engineering to fix the landscape and the social problems, and make the land productive, whilst improving it ecologically.
I do not know if you know of the work of the Austrian scientist Sepp Holzer, an agronomist who has been outstanding. Experimentally, he is able to convert bleak moors into productive crop land, in a single year. The re mediated soil can go on to be reforested, or used as improved grazing.
So the technologies are there for land transformation and re-mediation. But what to do with this land? I would start, in a multi-level program, with a new crofting act, making all of Scotland croftable. Secondly, making the Government establish a proper Green bank, and a rural bank, plus rural programs greatly extended from those of today. This is a start.
Several million acres Split and subdivided, and offered as modern crofts, a million acres would give 50, 20 acre crofts. They would need technical, financial and social support. There are probably four million acres held offshore, in entities of dubious legality and tax liability. There has to be a Government act to do this. The four million acres I speak of are about twice as much as required for a 20 year program to establish , crofts, in working condition.
The other two can be community run forests. This is the direct program needed to take the sting out of the historic grievances and injustices of the past. The economic impact would be very large, the social impact even larger. This would be a profitable investment, financially and socially, for the government. It does not impact on the issue of resident land holders.
That has to be handled differently. That has to be a separate program. See my previous comments on these issues, for y thoughts. We do need a joined up thinking, evidence based program proposal for the land, and this one is a good start. It kick starts the key issues of rural re population and ecological restoration, whilst greatly increasing the food and timber production.
I would emphasise the benefits of community forest, which is fairly common in Scandinavia. I note your comment re Bergen. Yes, exactly. Some of this would be funded from reduced social security costs, etc. It might even be a Zero-sum game. If you add the new CAP EU payments and tweak it, and the existing Scottish Government rural and farming grant system and tax allowances, it becomes very attractive.
Agreo-eco-nomic farming and biodiversity, and it could last a very long time. If we go down this route and the concept has been around for a considerable time, we could encompass it within what some call Social Credit or the term I prefer personally, a universal, non means tested and graduated Citizens Income to REPLACE the whole inane Byyzantine nightmare of the current social welfare system.
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Thank you. Graham, i agree the crofting act should cover the whole of scotland, and cover all agricultural tenancies. Then crack on and buy out the foreigners. Andy, I hope that you do view my comments as relevant. I do try to make them so. Hector, I think we do need a new Crofting Act. A modernised one, that fits the times. This sort of thing is where a group of people like the ones that post on here can make a difference, getting shoulder to wheel, and writing, debating, discussing it, and lobbying the SNP to do it.
But as I have also said on here, absolutely key is the infrastructure that does not yet exist, such as the Rural Bank, the Green Bank, presently obsessed, at its HQ in Edinburgh, with speculation, and not interested in Scotland or Scots and all the other things I have suggested need to be built.
No foundations, and a building will collapse. The big offshore holdings are a scandal. The flushing out of who owns what, and who avoids tax, on them, is vital.
A fair and level playing field, for all in Scotland, land registration and ownership must be legally based in Scotland. All taxes must be paid in Scotland. Absentee non resident ownership must be made illegal. Huge blocks of land are being grabbed by offshore and shadowy banks and corporations, for land banking, speculation, collateral for further loans, which are used to buy yet more land in an endless spiral.
Inevitably this becomes a Ponzi scheme and eventually, it crashes. The impact of such a crash on Scotland would be very serious. So the non-resident bar is essential. The Norwegians have it. So what to do? Some elements of this already exist, so as to speak, in the new land tribunal, replacing the old land Court….. Likewise, there needs to be a greatly beefed up self-standing department of state for rural development, in the widest sense, that would control the Rural and Green banks, both of which MUST be State owned, and receiving some oil revenues for investment.
Throw in legislation on farming cooperatives, rural credit unions, tax breaks for food and forestry production that are not huge corporate operations, financial cap etc etc…. Another Rural Scotland is possible. Comments please? Land banking—land hoarding for what purpose?
What are they speculating on? Well, since land has no capital value whatsoever, that just leaves its perceived societal desirability, for which several terms have been coined and the one I keep referring to and coming back to is Land Rental Value. Not only will this not get in the way of the more specific items described, but will help to facilitate them. We get them to pay us—not the other way about.
I can give you a fair level of LRV and say why it is fair, can you give me a fair level of income tax and say why it is fair? We need public revenue in very large amounts to cover what you suggest needs to be done, but does that mean a huge hype in tax to raise it? I shudder and tremble at the thought of the current status of a Croft being foisted upon the rest of Scotland. I have never met a Norwegian who wanted to swap his farming tenure system for the legal entity of a Scottish croft and indeed the suggestion results in polite ironic laughter.
I cannot however articulate strongly enough again the huge and intense sense of multi-decadal Deja Vu over all this. It all stands or falls with the political will to at least engage with the prospects let alone effect them in law.
The SNP you want to engage with have failed us in a deliberate, cogent and calculated way. Is the difference not that Graham is outside looking in and has presented with fresh eyes and a global awareness, a vision for a progressive rural economy? His vision is very like that has been expressed by others over the last years, but has been prevented by a political class ennervated and traduced by their connections to the land monopoly sectional interests.
I agree with a great deal of what he is saying and wish him well. I am merely suggesting that he does not lose site of the jugular that is going to need to be cut. On the subject of foreign ownership particularly, I came across quite a topical article on the grain. Below is an extract from the article which I thought was particularly pertinent. Land grabbing has become a structural plague of our time alongside equally important and interconnected processes such as growing land concentration and other forms of resource grabbing.
Limiting foreign direct investment in land is not a bad thing as such.
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