I TAKE great issue with your headline on the report of two new wind farms being approved by the Government ("£28m lift as two new wind farms approved", The Herald, July 24).
I have yet to meet anybody who does not react with horror to the turbine corridor at Abington and to think an extension would lift any community is beyond belief.
As the rest of the UK pays 92% of the subsidies for this folly, I wonder what Scottish consumers will think when they have to foot the whole bill if Scotland becomes independent. Isn't that the real question that should be discussed after the recent EU ruling that countries don't have to pay these subsidies for neighbouring countries?
The recent flurry of wind farms being passed by the Government questions whether it has any expectation of winning the referendum and just wants to load more subsidies on to the rest of the UK.This would be cutting off your nose to spite your face, in my opinion, as Scotland's greatest asset, its scenery, is trashed; but no other explanation makes the remotest sense.
Celia Hobbs,
Dykeneuk, Peebles Road,
Penicuik.
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