The ninth Duke, Johnnie Buccleuch, who died in 2007 aged 83, said wind farms were inefficient as well as being a blot on the landscape.
But last week his son Richard, 59, the 10th Duke and now the largest landowner in the UK after inheriting most of his father’s property, unveiled plans for a wind farm and hydro power park on a restored mine site at Glenmuckloch near Kirkconnel in Dumfries and Galloway.
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