Equal rights?
Nicola Sturgeon says she wants to rebuild and revitalise Scotland (Scotsman, 8 March). She wants to know who has the right to decide the kind of country we should be, the people of Scotland or Boris Johnson.
I would like to ask her who has the right to decide whether rural Scotland should be carpeted with wind farms, the people who live there or the Scottish Government which refuses to allow communities the same right to stop a development in its tracks as those living in England, where proposals are required to demonstrate community support before planning permission can be granted.
Let’s remove the bribe (otherwise known as Community Benefit) which is offered in varying amounts by wind farm developers to encourage communities to accept the industrialisation of their landscape and the resulting negative impact on people and wildlife and give us the same right to make our own decisions as our English cousins and then we will see how many wind farms get built.
Aileen Jackson
Knockglass, Uplawmoor
Last chance
US politician John Kerry has said that COP26 Glasgow climate conference will be “the last best chance” to avert the worst environmental consequences.
However, at the start of the 2005 COP 11 in Montreal, campaigner Mark Lynas wrote “Montreal represents a last chance”. In the run up to COP 13 in Bali in 2007 Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth, said “Bali could be the last chance”. Just before the 2018 COP 24 conference in Katowice Greta Thunberg said “this is our last chance”.
How many more last chances are we going to get?
Geoff Moore
Alness, Highland
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