The Isle of Barra distillery (trading as Ltd) is now a Community Benefit Society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 and in January 2019, a crowdfunding initiative was started to enable the project to proceed with construction. In December 2012, four 6 kW wind turbines made by Proven (now known as Kingspan) were erected next to the reservoir Loch , which originally supplied the drinking water to Castlebay. It is proposed that as much as possible of the raw materials, supply chain and labor to produce the whisky should remain as local as possible to minimise imports and maximise the benefit to the island's economy.