I sympathise greatly with Linda Dunk (letters 21 October) as I would with anyone faced with a wind farm development on their doorstep but her opinion that 250m onshore turbines are unacceptable “except in the remotest of locations with low population density” is unfortunate to say the least.
Does she think that Nature does not exist in remote areas or that the people who live there are less important than elsewhere? That sounds like a wind farm developer talking!
No-one should have to put up with a wind farm on their doorstep no matter where they live. People who live on the outskirts of our major cities don’t want them either but that is where the highest density of turbines are located such as in East Renfrewshire on the southside of Glasgow.
Unfortunately it is only when a community is faced with a wind farm application that they suddenly wake up, do some research and realise it is not the good idea they thought it was. They don’t realise other areas of the country have already been fighting them for decades and they don’t care because until now, it was always someone else’s problem. Now it is one for the entire rural population of Scotland as suitable wind farm sites are becoming more difficult to find resulting in applications being submitted in previously unimaginable areas.
Those 250m turbines are now the norm not the exception and we are in this fight together to save all of our country, not just a few select parts
Aileen Jackson
Knockglass
Uplawmoor
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