June 9, 2021

A major wind farm could be utilised as a tourist attraction in the far north, a Highland councillor has said. Kirsteen Currie envisages the Strathy South development in Sutherland as a “Whitelee of the North”, a reference to the UK’s largest onshore windfarm near Glasgow. The 39-turbine project was approved Read more…

Communities that resist onshore wind farms find themselves in a “David and Goliath situation” and are let down by a planning system that is murky and undemocratic, a Caithness councillor has claimed. Councillor Matthew Reiss argues that too often local people are left feeling helpless in the face of “gigantic Read more…