Musings from the Merse
Thursday, December 11, 2008
"Our countryside is being vandalised with these damned industrial machines because the administration in Holyrood does not have the guts to go down the nuclear route," blasted Jim Fullarton (East Berwickshire"
speaks the well known voice of moderation. (Full report here) Short and to the point which is not at all like Big Jim. My instinct after being subjected to blasts of long winded (npi)incoherent rhetoric by Jim F whilst serving a few years on the Hutton and Paxton Community Council is to support anything he is opposing. In this instance I have the unworthy thought that perhaps there is an element of a Border Collie in the rabbit hutch behind this vehemence, opposing turbines wherever they may wish to be. Some fellow landowners have done quite well renting out vast tracts of territory for wind farms. Damned industrial machines pay quite a nice lot of rent. Has anyone asked Jim for a slice of Coldingham?
Thought not.
(The image is of Hardens Hill Turbine farm-marching towards Coldingham so Big J could yet be lucky?)
Labels: Big Jim Fullarton, Wind Turbines
Comments:
On this occasion big Jim is right. The windfarm on Coldingham Moor has been granted. Ruining some people lives where they are going to be put very close to them. It is extraordinary that we should ruin the Borders Scottish tourist coastal route with these turbines which are inefficient They never seem to have the right type of wind on cold frosty mornings there is not enough wind, on other occasions there is too much and they have to be switched off. In the end it will have to be Nuclear and Scotland will be trailing behind.
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: 4:15 PM
: 4:15 PM
When someone can really design a method of safely storing nuclear waste-and transporting it around I will opt for the nuclear option. Scotland is brimming with natural sources of renewable energy_water, tide and yes wind. Its a question of making these technologies more efficient not shoving them onto some one elses moor or hill top. I know they make noisy neighbours but they have a charm of their own. People visit Holland to see their old fashioned windmills. Why not the Borders? There is not much else to attract tourists to Scotland's favourite whistle stop destination!
Berwickshire will surely be a hawker's [*] delight in 30 years time when all these pylons have out-lasted their use and have to come down!
*[an itinerant or site dwelling, "unemployed", benefit claiming, local tradesperson - usually in scrap metal or similar materials "no longer required" by their owner]
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*[an itinerant or site dwelling, "unemployed", benefit claiming, local tradesperson - usually in scrap metal or similar materials "no longer required" by their owner]
# posted by : 11:52 PM
: 11:52 PM