Highlands before Pylons is a group of individuals whose common link is a love of Scotland. As a group we have no affiliation to any political party or commercial business, and welcome help from anyone who shares our view.

Our general aim is to protect the beautiful landscapes of the Highlands, for the benefit of local residents, visitors, and future generations. The specific campaigning objective of Highlands before Pylons is to oppose the development of major overhead power lines passing through wild or scenic areas with no similar existing infrastructure. The main way that we see of achieving this is to promote the maximum use of less intrusive undersea cables.

Our campaign is locally based, but we do, of course, care equally about wild beautiful areas throughout Scotland, the UK, and abroad.

We recognise the need for the development of renewable energy, but believe that the value of the Scottish landscape is so great that more should be spent in making the power plant and power lines less visually intrusive.

We believe that inappropriate developments can only be stopped by a national, or international, campaign in which individuals write to politicians to express their disgust that Scotland's unique landscapes are being ruined.