MOUNTAINEERS leaders have claimed plans for more than a dozen 400ft tall
windfarms in the Borders would have a severe impact on the landscape.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is objecting to the 14
turbine Whitelaw Brae development in the upper Tweed Valley.
It points out that it is within a special landscape area of the Tweedsmuir
Uplands and is next to a nationally defined wild land area. They say the
development is unparalleled south of the Highlands.
MCofS Chief Officer David Gibson said: “If consented the development would
cause significant and unacceptable impact to the only Wild Land Area in
south east Scotland and harm the landscape setting of the Corbetts and
other high ground of the popular Tweedsmuir Hills.
The firm behind it, 2020 Renewables, said any ‘perceived adverse impacts’
would be balanced out by the significant benefits of generating renewable
energy and the social and economic benefits to local communities.
RSPB Scotland is urging people to make known their opposition to a 39 SSE
turbines planned for the Strathy South, in the heart of the Flow Country
peatlands of Sutherland. A preliminary hearing before a public inquiry is
to take place on January 28 in Strathy Village Hall.
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