Blown away
It is -5 degrees outside this morning, yet the entire wind industry carpeting our finest landscapes and seascapes, costing the poorest bill-payers countless billions in “green” taxes, is currently supplying the National Grid with a big fat zero amount of energy! (0.49 per cent, to be precise).
The giant Beatrice Offshore windfarm alone gobbled up a staggering £281,000,000 subsidy last year. Will we get a refund for poor or non-existent service?
George Herraghty, Lothlorien, Lhanbryde, Moray
Spinning around
The Green Party want to upgrade existing wind farms and relax planning restrictions to make it easier to install windfarms. Have they asked Scottish rural communities for their opinion?
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 barges ahead, overturning these democratically made decisions and there is no right of appeal for third parties other than by Judicial Review, which is financially dangerous and out of reach of the average person. Rather than adjusting planning procedures to allow for easier consent, applications should undergo greater scrutiny to account for the increased negative impact these upgraded, much larger turbines will have on people, wildlife and the environment.
Campaign group Scotland Against Spin has lodged a public petition in Parliament calling on the Scottish Government to “increase the ability of communities to influence planning decisions for onshore windfarms”. For the sake of rural communities throughout this country, I pray it is successful.
Aileen Jackson, Knockglass, Uplawmoor
Energy to argue
Henryk Belda (Letters, 13 April) makes bizarre claims to promote hydrogen as an energy source, I’d like to know the sources of his information. Besides that, the idea of either producing hydrogen or powering the country from wind is a no-go, as wind is providing a miniscule 0.6 per cent of UK electricity as I write, despite there being 11,000 wind turbines. The source of my data is a climate alarmist website.
Geoff Moore, Alness, Highland
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