Windfarms are here to stay and more are coming, Dumfries and Galloway MP John Cooper warned this week.
But the Conservative politician is backing the idea of more community benefits from the renewables industry.
Mr Cooper spoke in a debate in Westminster which considered upping the amount of community benefit for places affected by renewables and associated pylons.
He added: “I feel the battle to stop wind farms has been long lost, though we must fight a rearguard action against ever-bigger turbines – giants of over 650 feet from base to rotor tip are the fashion – ever closer to our towns and villages.
“This will be a last-ditch fight. With Labour in power and happy to slyly rebrand the English Greenbelt the ‘greybelt’ to bulldoze through renewables infrastructure, the Scottish Government in Edinburgh is not taking enough notice of local feeling.
“They will trample local opposition to wind farms, and I fear will also turn a deaf ear to pleas to force power cables underground.” https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/dumfries-galloway-mp-warns-windfarms-33911641?fbclid=IwY2xjawF_LcFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHakB6tIi8D3TwX7JTPzw4nnXnRpHK12f1unGPM74enPtOJ3CZslpVo2pBA_aem_g3kFtWo6W7jy6h1YpKQhlQ
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