Wind turbine farm planning

Graeme Morgan is correct. Wind turbine farm planning does not require any of this information

Graeme Morgan's letter in PE March is correct and it should be pointed out that the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) required for Wind Turbine Farm Planning does not require any of this information. I came across the owner of the local quarry and I know one of the dozer drivers who had a good job for 6 months because every wind turbine site requires a track to it and a rocky platform for the two cranes to erect it. This required 64 kilometers of 3 m wide track through peat and other unstable ground. They were two happy chappies. You would have thought an EIA which ran to 600 pages would have at least an assessment of the CO₂ emissions used and saved but the powers that be decided as every site was different it was not needed, instead bat, mammel, noise, and bird surveys were dutifully carried out.

Mike Travers, Fife

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