Sullom Voe Oil Terminal: Its Environmental Appraisal

Abstract

The Shetland Islands, lying about 100 miles north of the Scottish mainland, have hitherto been a remote rural community concerned primarily with fishing and crofting and cottage industries such as knitting. No major industrial enterprises have been established within the island group. Shetland has a very interesting and well documented historical past. Stone-age remains dating back to four thousand years before present are found in association with remains of Viking settlements a thousand years old. There are many Pictish brochs. Round the coastal and low lying areas of the islands are scattered crofting communities, the only town of any size being the capital, Lerwick.