Bad scene
The Scottish Government’s disastrous decision to allow the Glendye windfarm on Aberdeenshire’s glorious, scenic, Cairn o’ Mount road is now leading to even more destruction of Scotland’s landscapes, cultural heritage and sacred places.
Despite valiant efforts, huge opposition and cogent arguments from local authorities, it was given the nod by a remote and uncaring Central Belt SNP government. We now have to suffer the ignominy of giant pylons being forced through by the developers, SSE, all the way to Stonehaven (the sham of “Consultation Events” are now being advertised).
This will totally destroy the iconic “Pass in the Grampians”, lovingly described in Nan Shepherd’s quartet of novels. Having known Nan, I can confirm she would have been absolutely horrified! During her final years at Annesley House in Torphins, Nan was consoled that she could still see her favourite “spiritual” mountain, distinctive Clachnaben, now about to be ruined by giant industrial turbines just below.
The Mearns landscapes of Scotland’s favourite novel, Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song will also be trashed forever.
The landscape of Montrose artist James Morrison’s glorious paintings will never look the same, their sweeping magnificence and vast horizons now being destroyed by bristling pylons and giant, rotating cash machines on every horizon. What on earth are we doing?
Isn’t it high time we actually started saving the planet?
George Herraghty, Lhanbryde, Elgin, Moray
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