Windfarms and local democracy/Scottish Energy News (Linda Holt)

Scottish wind policy has been on a collision course with local democracy for a long time. The Scottish Government has promoted wind energy via target-led, developer-led planning policies instead of a plan-led system with clear restrictions on development, which is what planning is supposed to be about. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/platform/windfarms-and-local-democracy/

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An Ill Wind – The Times

Britain’s wind power boom is based on assumptions that have proved wrong and subsidies that are unsustainable Published at 12:01AM, April 3 2014 Except when it carries dust from the Sahara, wind is relatively clean. It has the additional advantage of being free at the point of contact with whatever Read more

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