MOUNTAINEERS leaders have claimed plans for more than a dozen 400ft tall windfarms in the Borders would have a severe impact on the landscape.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is objecting to the 14 turbine Whitelaw Brae development in the upper Tweed Valley.
It points out that it is within a special landscape area of the Tweedsmuir Uplands and is next to a nationally defined wild land area. They say the development is unparalleled south of the Highlands.
MCofS Chief Officer David Gibson said: "If consented the development would cause significant and unacceptable impact to the only Wild Land Area in south east Scotland and harm the landscape setting of the Corbetts and other high ground of the popular Tweedsmuir Hills.
The firm behind it, 2020 Renewables, said any 'perceived adverse impacts' would be balanced out by the significant benefits of generating renewable energy and the social and economic benefits to local communities.
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RSPB Scotland is urging people to make known their opposition to a 39 SSE turbines planned for the Strathy South, in the heart of the Flow Country peatlands of Sutherland. A preliminary hearing before a public inquiry is to take place on January 28 in Strathy Village Hall.
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