Strathconon

I drove recently along the Strathconon glen from Marybank to Scatwell, on a visit to friends who live there. I noticed many changes as I drove along. New surfaces and borders, re-shaped passing places and startling white, wavy lines.

Of course, road works had been anticipated after approval of the Fairburn wind farm - wanted or not.

However, I was shocked and distressed when I passed, right on the roadside, what I now know to be only part of an enormous new power station. Looming between the road and the river. I was told that there is as much (size-wise) below ground.

My concern is this - Are we being told everything relating to each planned wind farm?

I heard on the radio that the government’s aim is to enlarge the capacity of the National Grid, and all infrastructure connected, in order that energy, expected to be surplus to requirements, can be exported.

If what I saw in Glenconon is an example of what will happen elsewhere in Scotland, I fear that the environmental and ecological babies are being thrown out with the bathwater, and will never be bonnie again.


Pam Morrison