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Yes it is Aluta. I don't know how the new arrangement of turbines affects the horizon, on the map shown there seem to be fewer sites at the south end near Callanish so hopefully it's an improvement.
Personally I think the 'archaeology in danger' point in this article is rather fatuous. There is lots of protection for archaeology built into the development process.
Conversly without any wind turbine building the archaeology on the vast peat moorlands will probably remain unknown forever.
There would seems to be huge potential (and requirement) for excavation around of the sites of these wind turbines, with funding from a developer (which is how the vast majority of new archaeology gets discovered and funded these days).
Looking at that map, they are hardly short of moorland so in the event they did discover some exciting prehistoric archaeology in a particular area they could always move the base of that particular turbine. Something like a new stone circle would get scheduled as an ancient monument, thus requiring the turbine to be moved somewhere else to avoid it.
We get some new stone circles to see, lots of archaeology job, lots of windfarm jobs - everyone is happy?
Of course the argument is different when looking from the point of view of bird life, damage to wilderness, views etc but it seems to me that there is the potential for archaeology to benefit massively from windfarm development?
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road