Linda Holt, SAS spokesperson, commented on the news today that the UK Government was cutting the subsidies for onshore wind:
This is a tokenistic cut which will make no difference to the tremendous pressure Scottish communities are under from wind developers. It’s only a cut from a 100% subsidy  to a 95% subsidy for every kilowatt of electricity produced by wind turbines.
It may make some investors think twice in the long term, but there is still so much easy money to be made from putting up turbines thanks to excessive public subsidy that it won’t stop speculators pressing for planning consent for turbines regardless of how close they are to communities, regardless of how damaging they are for the landscape and environment and regardless of how inefficient they are as electricity generators.
Scotland is, and will remain, a dumping ground for industrial wind turbines which no UK Government can risk putting up in the south east of England.
It’s time Alex Salmond took the opportunity to pause and reassess his policy for unlimited onshore wind development in Scotland. The policy is supposed to be about sustainability but in reality it’s disastrously unsustainable for all UK consumers who have to foot the bill for soaring subsidies and for the Scottish people whose cherished landscapes are being turned into industrial wastelands.

 


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