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Comments, letters, emails received (in date order):

Received from Rhona Weir on 5 October 2011

We have lost our shipyards and are no longer an industrial country. Our oil and fish production is limited, but we have an asset that has weathered the permanence of the ages – our unique diverse and very precious landscape, appreciated not only by ourselves but renowned throughout the globe. One way or another this scenery through tourism accounts for much of the revenue on which our country depends, and to deface it with the industrialisation of a proliferation of under productive wind farms when alternative and more reliable methods of electricity are available is an act of thoughtless folly.

Apart from their disastrous impact on the environment the impact of the enormous costs involved will hit every householder in the land. For none other can be indemnified for the prohibitive costs of manufacture, transportation, site preparation and installation to say nothing of the hefty renumeration to land owners and others including the percentage output “lure” offered to local communities.

I gather from the press that scientists are on the verge of creating some form of harmless nuclear power. If this materializes how would wind farms be affected? I wonder if this has been considered.

There are other detrimental issues to be considered; the noise factor for example, the impact of access roads on the environment and the indestructibility of the concrete bases that will outlive the allotted span of the turbines.

Judas Iscariot forfeited his soul for 30 pieces of silver. Our heritage is in danger of being forfeited for innumerable pieces of metal.

I rest my case.

Rhona M Weir

 

Received from Sally Page on 3 October 2011

Please would you publish the following links which give alternative views.

Received from Lomond Energy on 2 September 2011

We would be grateful if you would publish the following links and fact sheet which set out the facts about wind energy and this project:

 

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