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Turbines ahoy
I was fishing this week at Cobbinshaw Reservoir, which is the compensation reservoir for the Union Canal. It is situated just south of West Calder. As we approached we could see the wind farm with six turbines just south of Pates Hill and we could also see that there were new turbines being installed just to the west.
These new turbines are presumably the ones that are going to be so much bigger that the roundabouts on the A71 have had to be flattened on one side to allow the new longer turbine blades to pass them.
When we turned down the road to the reservoir we could see another wind farm with ten turbines at Stallashaws Moss, and then when we were at the reservoir to the East there is a seven-turbine wind farm on the Bog Burn, and just to its south a 21-turbine wind farm just beside Harburn Golf Course.
I would imagine that most people living in this area have no idea of the number of wind farms there are, and one has to wonder why our energy bills are rising at such an alarming rate.
Mike McKinnell, Blackhall, Edinburgh
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