Energy giant SSE has lodged plans to build one of the world’s biggest wind farms off the Fife coast.
The Berwick Bank development in the outer Firth of Forth would provide power to more than five million homes.
And it comes with the potential to create 6,000 full time equivalent jobs.
Bosses at SSE Renewables say the 4.1 gigawatt (GW) array must go ahead if Scotland is to meet legally binding climate change targets.
But planning documents submitted to Angus Council indicate this may come at some cost to wildlife, including the Forth’s already under pressure seabird populations. Read on: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-environment/environment/4014958/plans-lodged-for-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-wind-farms-off-fife-coast/
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