| Re: Wind Farms/RSPB
We have to be very careful in assessing the good or ill of land based wind farms. The energy required to build them can be huge and the impact can outweigh the benefits. These structures are truly immense and ripping out the peat in order to build foundations can release huge amounts of carbon. Then there is the impact of building them.
Just at the moment there is a planning application for an enormous quarry on the banks on the upper Clyde in southern Scotland near the little town of Biggar. No one can surely deny that this will have a great impact on one of the most lovely of all our rivers with it's diverse wildlife. Any one who believes there will not be a great deal of pollution associated with this will surely be related to the ostrich family. So why have a quarry there? Well a huge wind farm is planned for a few miles way.... |