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Pylons a small price if they help save our planet

Iain MacWhirter: If the upgrading of the Beauly-Denny electricity transmission line is blocked by objectors, then we might as well give up on renewable energy. Scotland's prodigious resources of wind, tide and waves are up north and the electricity needs to be brought down south.

If the upgrading of the Beauly-Denny electricity transmission line is blocked by objectors, then we might as well give up on renewable energy. Scotland's prodigious resources of wind, tide and waves are up north and the electricity needs to be brought down south.