Letter in the Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News today from our Chairman Graham Lang. We have brought this up with the SG before but Graham will give it another go and will write to the Minister again.
Aileen Jackson is right to question why the Scots do not have the same rights as the English to veto a wind farm development that has no local community support (Letters, 10 March).
Insensitively sited wind farms are objected to in droves by local people and Councils as well as Statutory Consultees such as RSPB and Nature Scot but the Scottish Government ploughs ahead overturning these democratically made decisions and there is no right of appeal other than through Judicial Review which is financially dangerous and out of reach of the average person.
The lure of Community benefit is a sop mopped up by distant communities which are not affected by the development while the opinion of people living in the shadow of the turbines, are ignored.
No wind farm should be built unless it stands the test of local democratic support.
Graham Lang
Scotland Against Spin
Westermost
Ceres
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