Originally from Devon, Sophie Dey married to head keeper Sandy Dey from Coignafearn  the next door estate to Dunmaglass,  said : “ I just think the Highlands are such a beautiful part of the world and these hills will be scarred by wind farms and the energy exported down to heavily populated areas. I really feel they are raping our land.”

Please credit Landscape images to Roy Dennis

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n Wind power 'will cost taxpayer millions'

The publication this week of a new report into renewable energy is set to raise serious questions over the economic and ecological benefits of wind power.

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n The menaced landscape:
Wind farms? You may as well take a knife to a Constable

Here is a thought experiment. Imagine that it has been discovered that clean green energy can be provided by burning the great masterpieces of landscape art. Imagine that, to this end, the government has spent £1bn subsidising large companies to evacuate the vaults and hanging spaces of the UK's national galleries. Imagine that canvases by Constable, Ruskin, Turner (these burn especially well) and Stanley Spencer, and the sculptures of Hepworth and Goldsworthy are being lifted from walls and plinths, and tumbled into furnaces.

The consequent energy yield is not huge at present: perhaps 6% of the national annual need. But the government plans to extend its programme drastically over the next 15 years, burning ever greater numbers of masterpieces. What - this thought experiment asks - would be the reaction of the public and the liberal press to such an energy programme?

Robert Macfarlane
The Guardian Saturday February 26, 2005
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