Letter: Albatross farms

IT IS only a matter of time before wind turbines become obsolete. The present £400 million-a-year subsidies are unsustainable and more wind farms are at the planning stage.

The wind industry can only survive with government money and the UK is fast running out of this commodity.

Once the turbine is past its sell-by date the turbine should be taken down and the land restored. So what happens when the developer goes into liquidation or walks away?

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In America more than 14,000 turbines are rusting away and investment in the wind industry plunged by 38 per cent. In the UK, several suppliers and manufacturers have already gone into liquidation.

The landowners who allowed the erection of turbines in return for a very substantial fee had better beware.

They could be responsible for the clean-up costs and the removal of these rusting skeletons.

What looked like money for old rope suddenly looks like an albatross around landowners’ necks. Serves them right for soaking up subsidies that result in ever-increasing electricity prices that cause fuel poverty and job losses but do nothing for the environment.

Clark Cross

Springfield Road

Linlithgow

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