The Complexities of Wind Power

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The Complexities of Wind Power
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Despite its benefits, wind power faces opposition and challenges in its implementation.

field, most of us accept that we need to quit spending lots of money to dig up safely stored carbon, in order to pay fossil fuel multinationals for the privilege of releasing it into the atmosphere.

Call me contrary, but if Trump’s anti, it’s something I’m usually into. But while on paper, wind power sounds like a no-brainer, regrettably it’s more complex than that.Bonny, bonny Swiss bank accounts “Big Wind” is no less ugly than the oil and gas companies. Breakish Wind Farm Action Group is opposing an attempt to build a sizeable wind farm on important Skye peatland and said: “This is old Scotland – it’s about land and money.

If the current applications proceed, it will increase the number of turbines on the island from 28 to 149, and of the 11 projects, only four are owned by companies that are even faintly Scottish. Indeed, the John Muir Trust suggests that policymakers and the Scottish Government may not appreciate “the consequences that a continuously expandingThe great thing about peat is how it functions best, as both a carbon sink and a hotbed for biodiversity, if you leave it alone. It merrily sits there sequestering carbon, being awesome.But in 2022, the UK Climate Change Committee Report found that 80% of Scotland’s peatlands are degraded – emitting rather than storing carbon.

The JMT has said: “Large-scale renewable energy development ... tends to target sites in the UK’s wild remote, upland areas.” We absolutely need to decarbonise our energy system, but we do need to do so without jumping out of the oil industry’s frying pan into yet another multinational’s fire.

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