Scotland Against Spin spokesperson Linda Holt said people were contacting the organisation with “horror, disbelief and desperation” at today’s consent for the Bhlaraidh wind farm. She said:
“It makes a a complete mockery of the Scottish Government’s support for wild land, biodiversity and the tourist economy.
32 turbines of over 400 feet in height on ground that is up to 500m above sea level will turn iconic moor land and hills near Loch Ness into an industrial wind farm landscape and ruin the sense of wild, open space for tens of miles.
Every day brings more evidence of how unworkable an energy policy weighted towards wind is; every day brings more popular opposition. Yet the Scottish Government does little to protect its people and country from the wind industry’s insatiable pursuit of land and subsidy.
Our skies are being stolen by foreign profiteers who deliver next-to-no permanent employment or lasting economic benefit for Scotland, and all for an electricity supply that we cannot rely on and cannot afford.
Large wind farm consents like this one are undemocratic, untransparent and unaccountable. The Scottish Government hides its reckless, party-political pandering to the wind industry behind legislation (the Electricity Act of 1989) that was designed to allow a few major power stations essential for the national interest to bypass the ordinary planning process. It was never envisaged as a green card for hundreds of wind farms.
As this decision shows, the Government’s wind policy is a licence for environmental vandalism on a national scale. For a supposedly green and nationalist party, it beggars belief.”
FOR MORE COMMENT/DETAIL, please call mountaineer, wild land enthusiast and writer Alan Sloman 07850 081904
See his map of the proposed of the Monadhliath Mountains Ring of Steel, as proposed in 2012, and now coming into being
http://alansloman.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-monadhliath-mountains-ring-of-steel.html
Linda Holt
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Email: pressoffice@scotlandagainstspin.org
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3 Comments
may hurry · January 20, 2014 at 6:22 pm
well people, send the undemocratic SNP a message this September, you know how to vote don’t you????