ONCE again we have to endure the wealthy wind industry’s trade association,
Scottish Renewables, roll out one of their astonishing propaganda press
releases trying to convince the policy makers that rural Scots support more
onshore wind development (“Support for wind farms”, The Herald, October
18). This is an industry that has seen its subsidy cash cow being led off
to the abattoir to be put out of its misery and is desperately trying to
resuscitate it with help from the Scottish Government, WWF and the Green
party. There is no word of concern from any of them for the poor consumer
who would have to stump up the cash for more subsidies on top of the
outrageous hundreds of millions of pounds paid in constraints to turn off
the over-deployed wind fleet. A tiny sample of people was polled (0.1 per
cent of rural Scots) with no way of us knowing if those asked their opinion
live near or are threatened with a wind development. To spin this poll as
“evidence” that people living in the country want more industrialisation
and an environment further devastated by massive turbines, pylons, access
tracks and substations is the stuff of fairy tales.
If those who are excitedly trumpeting this poll all across the media truly
believe the results then they should lobby the Scottish Government hard to
give communities the wind veto like our counterparts in England enjoy. That
would put an end to all these tedious polls and front pages we have had to
endure for the last decade because if they are correct then no community
would be voting against a wealthy multinational spearing giant industrial
hardware into the environment where they live. Or would they?
Lyndsey Ward,
Darach Brae, Beauly.
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