Scottish Wind Farm Frenzy

Thursday.

Government cash offers send Scotland into a short-term profit Wind Farm Frenzy. Last year it was Argyll now it's Perthshire. This morning we received this email from relatives over in Scotland.

This is a big, heartfelt appeal. Please click on this now to help us. http://www.aswag.org.uk/ and go to what I can do, If you want to please register your objection to this area being selected by the local council as their 'preferred area' for wind farm construction on a colossal scale. Deadline Friday 11 February. Please can you help now?
This would support our fight against the proposed construction of 166 of the highest wind turbines - think height of struts on Forth Road Bridge, or tippety top of the London Eye, or pinnacle of Scott Monument, Edinburgh and you have some idea of the size, except these would be on top of all the hills surrounding Dunkeld, Amulree and Aberfeldy.

If I thought that having them there was going to do anything to save the planet for our children, I'd support them. They are not. With a life span of around 20 years, an efficiently factor of anything from 30% (wind farms companies) to 11% (latest expert opinions) these 166 monsters will fill up the hilltops with roughly the same amount of cement as 166 Olympic sized swimming pools, not to mention the contaminated water from the cement mixers, which have to be flushed out immediately into our water courses? And that is just problem.

The electricity they produce will be transported to 300 to 400 miles away on giant cables, so the existing pylons will be replaced with those three times their size.

It's all madness, and smaller schemes, of which we are huge supporters, such as the imminent small hydro one a mile away at Rumbling Bridge will produce enough electricity to power all Dunkeld and the surrounding areas, with almost no impact to the environment.

However, the guaranteed government cash is making the entire concept and attraction of windfarms like a frenzy, as it is soooooo attractive.

Some folks, like three of our local estate owners have refused to co operate with the companies and turned down offers of a £100K a year. Great, but others haven't. So the Council have also latched upon this area as a likely area.

Please look on the website for further information.

Argyll Wind Farms story link.