The revelations came just as Borders MP John Lamont sought a “better deal for rural communities” over energy infrastructure at a Westminster Hall Debate yesterday. ‘In the Highlands, local communities are grappling with more than 1,300 major electricity infrastructure projects’ Energy minister Michael Shanks responded to some of the points saying that the National Energy System Operator (NESO) is pushing ahead with the much-needed Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP).