Ms Thorburn, of Wind Prospect (Advertiser, June 27), claims that 71% of Scotland is in favour of wind farms.
She should surely be more sceptical that means anything at all. Having claimed that a majority of Midlothian supported their proposal based on a telephone poll, within six weeks 1080 people objected and only 67 for. When Midlothian people were faced with the reality of their much-loved landscape, opinion turned rapidly against the proposal. As for the 71%, nearly all of those live in cities and don’t face the damage and destruction wreaked by wind farms on the lives of local people. Low-carbon electricity can be generated anywhere. There is no reason to pick Mount Lothian.
Wind Prospect has chosen what is probably the most sensitive wildlife site in southern Scotland, with osprey, curlew, great crested newt, noctule bat and rare butterflies all protected species and all at extreme risk of destruction by this proposal.
http://www.midlothianadvertiser.co.uk/community/letter-to-the-editor-1-2991141
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