The Great Outdoors

Walkers should say yes to windfarms

WHEN A NEW WINDFARM comes along, our natural reaction as walkers is to say something like: “Well, we’re all in favour of renewable energy. But this particular windfarm is in the wrong place.” And the next windfarm proposal? Also in the wrong place.

One of the first windfarms in Scotland was on Windy Standard, in Galloway between Carsphairn and Sanquhar. In case you can’t place Windy Standard, it’s about five miles north of the Southern Upland Way. I

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