Environmentalism strikes again...
An SNP minister has admitted that nearly 16 million trees have been chopped down since 2000 on publicly owned land in Scotland to make way for wind farms
But it doesn't stop there
Ministers need to replace existing turbines nearing the end of their life cycle and they want install even taller and larger ones as a part of their so-called "repowering" program.
The equivalent of roughly 16 million trees in spatial terms is around 7,858 hectares, which equates to 78,580,000 meters sq. Forestry and Land Scotland said in response it has planted more than 500 million trees since 2000 but failed to acknowledge m the visual impacts of wind farms, the damage to wildlife, local business, the fact that they have to be replaced every 20 years and that they can't be readily recycled. Not to mention the gallons of oil required to lubricate the turbines as well as the diesel required to start them up each time.
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An SNP minister has admitted that nearly 16 million trees have been chopped down since 2000 on publicly owned land in Scotland to make way for wind farms
But it doesn't stop there
Ministers need to replace existing turbines nearing the end of their life cycle and they want install even taller and larger ones as a part of their so-called "repowering" program.
The equivalent of roughly 16 million trees in spatial terms is around 7,858 hectares, which equates to 78,580,000 meters sq. Forestry and Land Scotland said in response it has planted more than 500 million trees since 2000 but failed to acknowledge m the visual impacts of wind farms, the damage to wildlife, local business, the fact that they have to be replaced every 20 years and that they can't be readily recycled. Not to mention the gallons of oil required to lubricate the turbines as well as the diesel required to start them up each time.
@TheStarkNakedBrief
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