Why do we insist on destroying nature on the pretence of saving it? WHILST completely in agreement with Struan Stevenson (“March of the wind farms is destroying Scotland’s beauty – but we can stop it”, The Herald, May 27) about the catastrophic effect of unrestrained wind farm development on Scotland’s Read more…
The data was provided by the Scottish Government through an FOI request, however we discovered that some of the figures had not been updated since last year. We therefore undertook our own research using on-line renewables databases The figures below relate to turbines over 100kw only. As always, East Renfrewshire Read more…
Turbines total According to experts at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University the number of workers in the UK’s offshore energy sector could reach 220,000 by the end of this decade (your report, 25 May). In Scotland the “tens-of-thousands” of wind turbine jobs promised went to foreign manufacturers and foreign workers. The Read more…