IN the process of making us dependent on the weather for our electricity, we are ignoring, or perhaps even accepting, the visual destruction of our fine Scottish landscape, and its effect on tourism.
We are also ignoring its effect on many members of the Highland population, now living under windmill power cables, or alongside transformers and sub-stations.
Nearly all of this industrialisation belongs to foreign consortia, producing expensive electricity on a parttime basis.
If our First Minister regards this as acceptable, he should perhaps listen to the people whose businesses and lives have been bighted by this crazy path to the future, in a UK that has rejected
nuclear as a sensible way forward, and where Scotland is being used as a giant factory.
While we depend on a windy day, our nuclear and fossilpowered competitors steal our customers and we get poorer.
That’s the reality of what is now happening.
Malcolm Perkin
Kinnesswood
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