The threat of a further 1,000 wind turbines on Border hills is uniting
protest groups across the region.
Eddleston windfarm campaigners against proposals to build turbines at
Cloich Forest near Eddleston have joined the newly formed Borders Network
of Conservation Groups (BNCG) which aims to unite protest groups and
protect the local landscape from construction.
BNCG, is a not-for-profit, non-political umbrella organisation with 15 paid
up member groups, including both civic and amenity societies.
Vice Chair Mark Rowley explained: “If the brakes are not applied now, the
Borders will very soon become the Land of a 1,000 turbines.”
The group plans to meet with Scottish Borders Council Leader David Parker
and the local authority’s Chief Executive Tracey Logan to “suggest
constructive ways in which the Council can fulfil its obligations to
protect and promote the Borders’ heritage, people, and economy”.
Last week the Peeblesshire News reported that councillors of all party
political hues and none have combined to send a clear signal to the
Scottish Government that this region is at saturation point when it comes
to “inappropriate” wind farms.
BNCG chair, John Williams, said: “We have strengthened our Borders-wide
organisation so that we can step up our campaign to safeguard the enormous
value that the Borders landscape brings to the economy, culture, recreation
and ecology of the area.
“The biggest threat to the Borders is coming from the rush to erect as many
wind farms as possible before subsidies are reduced in 2017, and as
restrictions due to the MoD’s seismic monitoring at Eskdalemuir are
relaxed. “Developers appear to have no concern for the devastating effect
that increasing numbers of ever-larger wind turbines have on our landscape
and communities”
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