Ramblers target Scottish Power: Call for change in windfarm policy

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Cameron McNeish, President of Ramblers’ Association Scotland, today called on Scottish Power to abandon its plans for the Inverliever windfarm project in Argyll and to commit to a radical shift in its approach to renewable energy developments.

Cameron McNeish will be present at Scottish Power’s Annual General Meeting tomorrow to distribute the following statement to shareholders arriving for the meeting. The AGM is being held at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, on Friday, 23 July, starting at 11 am.

In calling on shareholders to play their part in changing the company’s policy, Cameron McNeish said:

“Renewable energy policy in the UK is in chaos, with government ministers apparently incapable of developing arrangements which combine efficient production and distribution of renewable energy with effective energy conservation as well as protecting landscape, local community and tourism industry interests.

I am appealing to Scottish Power’s shareholders to recognise the foolhardiness in the relentless efforts to build giant wind turbines across our precious landscapes and to commit the company to the construction of land based turbines which are no more than 50 metres in total height.”