Letters: Wind farm survey

THE poll which suggested a 67 per cent support for wind farms (your report, 20 April) comes as no surprise as I would expect that the survey was biased towards town and city dwellers.

They should try asking the people whose lives the turbines have the most impact on; i.e. people living in the rural areas where I’m sure you would arrive at a totally different conclusion.

I live in the beautiful rural area of Galloway which is in danger of looking like a giant porcupine if the proposed applications are accepted.

I would like to congratulate the many talented contributors to The Scotsman’s picture gallery. What wonderful iconic Scottish landscapes they have captured.

However, I can’t recall one that included a wind farm! It won’t be long before such scenes are difficult to find without having a wind farm somewhere in the viewfinder if the current fever continues.

JOHN WYKES

Cuckoostone, Dalry

Dumfries & Galloway

RENEWABLE UK has an interesting perspective on democracy. Its spokesperson claims (your report, 20 April) that it is “undemocratic and damaging for the vocal anti-wind minority to derail plans for clean energy”.

Is the wind farm lobby really suggesting that any minority, by definition, has no right to express its opinions using all the resources available to it?

I am sure even its representative can think of examples throughout history when committed minorities, in the face of strong opposition from those vested interests which benefit financially from the current arrangements, eventually became the majority.

That’s how democracy, as opposed to plutocracy, works – to the annoyance of the politicians and the corporate sector.

JOHN MILNE

Ardgowan Drive

Uddingston