This goes well beyond the cutting of corners and bending of rules that have characterised the Scottish Government’s blind pursuit of the world’s most ambitious renewable targets.
As an eminent judge’s impeccably argued ruling threatens to stall a substantial tranche of wind farm development, Scottish Ministers have decided their renewable ambitions are above the rule of law.
For the cowboy culture of the wind industry, all that matters is grabbing the eye-watering subsidies as fast as possible. Amid growing public clamour and political strife about how much wind energy is costing consumers, speculators cannot afford to wait until the Scottish Government wins its appeal, let alone risk that it might not.
By allowing the greed of these cowboys to trump due process, Alex Salmond’s Scotland is revealed as a captive state.
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