Scotland destroys 17 million trees to build wind farms
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
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“A Scottish Government quango has commissioned the destruction of more than 17 million trees in the last 24 years in order to build wind farms on public land.
The Scottish Government has been blasted after it was revealed that more than one million trees have been chopped down on publicly owned land in just a year to make way for wind farms.
This mass cutting down of trees came despite the SNP and Scottish Greens claiming environmental credentials.
Communities in rural Scotland have complained about massive turbines blighting their landscapes, with even more planned in areas such as Aberdeenshire and Moray.
And now it has been revealed that a SNP quango is getting rid of healthy trees in order to make space for them.
● According to new statistics, more than one million trees were chopped down on public land, which is the equivalent to 2,700 per day.
Critics described this as “appalling” and warned that the rising number of wind farm developments are causing “irreparable damage” to the countryside.
In a freedom of information request, the Scottish Government estimated that 17.05 million trees had been cut down since 2000 in areas that are currently managed by public agency Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS).
This is based on a figure of 8,503 hectares, using an average number of trees per hectare of 2,000.
According to analysis, it means that around 1.3 million more trees have been felled since last year when the figure stood at 15.7 million.
There are also currently 24 wind farms in operation on FLS managed land, with three currently in construction, 13 at pre-construction stage and five in planning. …”