SIR – It wasn’t clear if your piece on Industrial wind turbines and the
SNP’s disturbing habit of stamping on local opinion had included the word
because of a comment by Niall Stuart, CEO of trade association Scottish
Renewables, or an addition by the reporting journalist.
Using the word ‘nimby’ is meant as an insult and implies those who don’t
support wind development are against it only if they have to see It.
The simplicity of that argument is grossly offensive as there are many
reasons not to build industrial turbines – not just the view. Anti-wind
campaigners work very hard to protect against the reckless overdevelopment
of a power source that: does not give energy security; is paid for by a
regressive tax; vandalises the environment with turbines, access tracks,
substations and pylon lines; is increasingly being shown to seriously
affect the health of some who are forced to live too close to it; impacts
on our vital tourism industry; can be lethal to protected birds and bats;
and provides no credible evidence of emission reduction.
What is really obnoxious is that those who support wind seem to be
perfectly content to be informed about unregulated industry, yet choose to
ignore it and not Include it in emissions savings calculations.
These are the “green nimbys” – happy, it appears, to accept toxic
wastelands and the catastrophic health impacts abroad for the faux
renewable revolution, just as long as they don’t have to see it.
Lyndsey Ward, Darach Brae, Beauly
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