Anti-windfarm campaigners went head-to-head with two turbine project developers in Moffat this week.
The community council organised a public meeting over controversial proposals for the Rivox and Scoop Hill schemes in the hills around the town.
Representatives of developers Belltown Power and Community Windpower Ltd and the protest group Save Our Hills Moffat gave presentations to the assembled audience at Upper Annandale Parish Church.
Terence Leigh, chairman of the Save Our Hills group, said: “It was fairly lively. The meeting had predominantly attendees who were against the windfarm proposals citing that there’s no need for windfarms, it’s the wrong place and destroying the community and biodiversity of the area and the ill effects on tourism.
“We have three projects in hand which are all based on biodiversity which are: the golden eagles, the dark skies and also a new one which is a wild land project which will promote the area like they have in the Cairngorms.
“But turbines are going to destroy that wild land project and destroy the dark skies with the lights on the turbines.” https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/heated-meeting-discuss-controversial-windfarm-31401338
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