‘Boghoos3’ – I am in favour of renewable energy BUT I don’t want to see Dumfries and Galloway covered in wind farms just because the technology is more advanced. More needs to be done to develop other forms of renewable energy and to reduce our carbon footprint through waste reduction and energy conseration. I also think we should consider new generation nuclear power – Chapelcross 2.
I think that micro-generation is a welcome addition to alternative energy. It makes sense to generate and use electicity close to source. As with all turbines though, I think the location is important and should be considered carefully. There is very real concern being expressed now about the cumulative affect some of these turbines are having on our landscape.
It depends what you mean by private. If you mean a single windmill built by one household in the country to create power for themselves, and it’s not too near neighbouring properties, I don’t see the problem. If you mean a wind farm built by a private company, that depends on the deal we’ve got out of them. Are they donating enough of their earnings to the local communities, for example? My personal view is that the big wind farms should be owned by the local community, but the trouble is that these big companies are often the only ones with the knowledge, and the money, to be able to do it. We (and I mean the local council, and the Scottish government) should try to get a better deal out of the companies. We are probably in too big a hurry to try to produce more of our energy from renewables, though I agree that we should be doing that in any case. I don’t believe half the stuff I hear from some objectors, like ‘The tourists won’t come if we have wind farms on our hills’ – I never heard a tourist say that and ‘Birds keep crashing into wind farms and killing themselves’- no more than they crash into other buildings, and not very often, and it just goes to prove that birds are more intelligent than some humans!
As the law and policy stands now, we are in danger of seeing every knowe in the region decorated with these things.
It’s because of a thing called a feed-in tariff which gives the windmill owner a great return on investment.
I don’t think the level of public subsidy can continue indefinitely but in the meantime, councils are scrambling to create a policy framework that will contain the legal and unsurprising pressure to stick them up everywhere.
For the avoidance of doubt, I do not oppose windfarms in principle.
‘Boghoos3’ – I am in favour of renewable energy BUT I don’t want to see Dumfries and Galloway covered in wind farms just because the technology is more advanced. More needs to be done to develop other forms of renewable energy and to reduce our carbon footprint through waste reduction and energy conseration. I also think we should consider new generation nuclear power – Chapelcross 2.
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I think that micro-generation is a welcome addition to alternative energy. It makes sense to generate and use electicity close to source. As with all turbines though, I think the location is important and should be considered carefully. There is very real concern being expressed now about the cumulative affect some of these turbines are having on our landscape.
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It depends what you mean by private. If you mean a single windmill built by one household in the country to create power for themselves, and it’s not too near neighbouring properties, I don’t see the problem. If you mean a wind farm built by a private company, that depends on the deal we’ve got out of them. Are they donating enough of their earnings to the local communities, for example? My personal view is that the big wind farms should be owned by the local community, but the trouble is that these big companies are often the only ones with the knowledge, and the money, to be able to do it. We (and I mean the local council, and the Scottish government) should try to get a better deal out of the companies. We are probably in too big a hurry to try to produce more of our energy from renewables, though I agree that we should be doing that in any case. I don’t believe half the stuff I hear from some objectors, like ‘The tourists won’t come if we have wind farms on our hills’ – I never heard a tourist say that and ‘Birds keep crashing into wind farms and killing themselves’- no more than they crash into other buildings, and not very often, and it just goes to prove that birds are more intelligent than some humans!
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As the law and policy stands now, we are in danger of seeing every knowe in the region decorated with these things.
It’s because of a thing called a feed-in tariff which gives the windmill owner a great return on investment.
I don’t think the level of public subsidy can continue indefinitely but in the meantime, councils are scrambling to create a policy framework that will contain the legal and unsurprising pressure to stick them up everywhere.
For the avoidance of doubt, I do not oppose windfarms in principle.
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