The spread of wind farms across the country is frightening to behold but as demonstrated in Wednesday’s article “Calls for help for Scottish Communities threatened by Ring of Steel wind turbines”, what we are seeing at the moment is only the tip of the iceberg. Rural communities may be currently overwhelmed as more and more developers pile into Scotland, where National Planning Policy is very supportive of onshore wind farm development compared to the rest of the UK and because they believe that the Scottish Government will in all likelihood overrule local decision making and grant consent – but what of the future? There is no cap on numbers as far as the SNP is concerned and the Greens are gagging to double what we have already.
Urban dwellers who only notice wind farms on distant hillsides when they are travelling from A to B don’t seem to care about the devastation being wreaked upon the Scottish landscape, or about the people or wild creatures who live there. They are more concerned with waxing lyrical about their support for wind energy in an effort to impress others who equally don’t understand about the toxic hazards posed by rare earth mining for raw materials used in permanent magnets for wind turbines and the carbon emissions associated with the manufacture, transportation, construction and decommission process for these machines, to name but a few of the downsides to wind turbines.
When our once-beautiful countryside is finally reduced to something resembling the Desolation of Smaug by wind farm developers who also scour the land in search of gold, perhaps more of our citizens will wake up to what has happened… but by then it will be too late. Only fairy stories have happy endings.
Aileen Jackson, Knockglass, Uplawmoor
French fear
It is not often that events on the Channel island of Jersey are relevant to Scotland. The threat by France’s maritime minister Annick Girardin that they might cut off electricity supplies to Jersey, however, is because France could do the same to the UK.
When wind speeds drop, as they did for three days at the start of the month, Scotland relies on importing electricity from England. This situation will only get worse once the Hunterston nuclear power station is closed at the start of next year. If in future the rest of the UK were short of electricity owing to the French switching off the connector, they would prioritise domestic supply over export to an independent Scotland.
Both Westminster and Holyrood must change their energy policies to ensure that we have a secure, reliable, plentiful and cheap supply of electricity, not the part-time expensive electricity generated by wind turbines.
Otto Inglis, Crossgates, Fife

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