Letter: Wind farm irony

The approval given by the Scottish Government's energy minister to the Duke of Roxburghe's plan for a 48-turbine wind farm development on an unspoilt stretch of the Lammermuir Hills maintains a noble tradition.

Whereas Scottish aristocrats used to profit by sacrificing their tenantry for sheep, today they can do so by sacrificing their beautiful moorland - and the nation's landscape - for wind farms.

How ironic that elsewhere windfall profits are liable to taxation, whereas profits that are literally windfalls are not taxed, but subsidised by the taxpayer!

VIVIAN LINACRE

Marshall Place

Perth