Wind farms not good news – The Herald

I TAKE great issue with your headline on the report of two new wind farms
being approved by the Government (“£28m lift as two new wind farms
approved”, The Herald, July 24).

I have yet to meet anybody who does not react with horror to the turbine
corridor at Abington and to think an extension would lift any community is
beyond belief.

As the rest of the UK pays 92% of the subsidies for this folly, I wonder
what Scottish consumers will think when they have to foot the whole bill if
Scotland becomes independent. Isn’t that the real question that should be
discussed after the recent EU ruling that countries don’t have to pay these
subsidies for neighbour­ing countries?

The recent flurry of wind farms being passed by the Government questions
whether it has any expectation of winning the referendum and just wants to
load more subsidies on to the rest of the UK.This would be cutting off your
nose to spite your face, in my opinion, as Scotland’s greatest asset, its
scenery, is trashed; but no other explanation makes the remotest sense.

Celia Hobbs,
Dykeneuk, Peebles Road,
Penicuik.