An excerpt from an article in the Herald yesterday. It’s not April Fools Day!
Windy city
Meanwhile, the minutes of an all-party oversight group to look at Edinburgh Council’s climate emissions reduction plan – how the authority can cut the emissions from inefficient buildings like the City Chambers, and its vehicle fleet – reveals a development which will have conservationists like the Cockburn Association in such a spin they will be able to sell electricity to the grid.
“Work was ongoing,” it notes,” to explore whether there was scope within Edinburgh for onshore wind turbines through a landscape sensitivity assessment.”
Wind turbines in Edinburgh? One each on top of Calton Hill, Easter and Wester Craiglockhart Hills, Corstorphine Hill, Blackford Hill, and two on the Braids and Arthur’s Seat?
Well, it’s nothing rural communities aren’t facing, and the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit are waving the applications through.
I can’t wait for Galileo, Boralex, Vattenfall, EDF or whoever to seek permission for an Edinburgh scheme. The community benefit offer will need to make the tourist tax look like coppers. https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/25911430.plan-wind-farms-across-edinburgh-city-centre/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQaHZhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETA0QjExV0ZZSkxCY0pienNxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoXijmXmzXSBKV9PmocAryP7YtDNAxFy8yuWYV1oGfEAOTko3PUwBiKWMoDe_aem_G2jWfGdUgbIKEO4f_IryAA
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