THE Scottish Government’s hair-brained proposal to scatter thousands of turbines twice the size of the 420ft-high Glasgow Tower and almost as big as London’s Shard into our rural landscapes must shock even the most environmentally disconnected. Hardly a week goes past when we don’t read about the eye-watering and increasing constraint payments made to wind generators to switch their turbines off to protect the grid in times of low demand (“£227m in wind farm payouts are big hit to consume
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