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<div id="tab-5" class="ui-tabs-hide"><p class="small"></p><p></p><br></br><p><strong><big>Inefficient monsters have only a limited role</big></strong><br></br>Alex Salmond’s announcement that huge areas of the Highlands are to be declared "turbine free" is a case of too little, too late (Struan Stevenson writes). After 44,Global Marketing Executive with Milkround.com  The Times Jobs,cheap ghd straighteners,000 letters of objection,ghd, he has asked the Scottish government to mark out areas of Scottish wild land where no wind farm developments will be permitted.</p><br></br><p>I first called for Scotland to be zoned for renewables ten years ago. Germany, with more installed turbines than any other country in Europe, zoned its entire landmass and territorial waters, designating exactly where onshore and offshore turbines could be erected and where they could never be entertained. They involved local planners in this process, judging that they knew their areas and communities best.</p><br></br><p>The SNP government ignored this initiative and instead opened the floodgates for an avalanche of planning applications, many of them entirely speculative.</p><br></br><p>The result has been predictable. Energy companies, driven by the lure of huge subsidies, have inundated local authorities with plans for giant wind factories. Plans are under way or are in the pipeline for massive wind turbines towering over Loch Ness, surrounding Loch Lomond, encroaching on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park, overlooking the global architectural gem of Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast,Halifax says outlook uncertain for house prices  The Times, looming above the iconic Old Course in St Andrews and the Championship Course at Turnberry and destroying the beautiful hills and valleys of the Borders and Dumfries &amp; Galloway.</p><br></br><p>The subsidies for these monsters are passed to the consumer,Spring sun Sneeze and you’ll miss it  The Times, whose energy bills have rocketed to more than ?1,400 a year, driving over 900,000 Scottish households into fuel poverty. The inefficiency of wind turbines that produce electricity for only about 25 per cent of their 15 to 20-year lifespan means that the UK has to rely on more and more expensive imported gas to keep our lights on when the wind isn’t blowing. By 2020, average household bills could be over ?3,500 in Scotland.</p><br></br><p>The Scottish government’s energy policy has already wrecked large areas of Scotland’s most valuable landscape and only the deluded believe that even if Scotland was covered from end to end by turbines, it would make the slightest difference to global CO2 emissions.</p><br></br><p>Mr Salmond should remember that it is not only wild lands that need protection, it is also people,ray ban aviators, many of whom have had their lives ruined and their property values destroyed by having giant,ray ban, industrial turbines built in close proximity. Mr Salmond’s turbine-free zones will simply displace wind farms into other populated parts of Scotland. What we need is a complete policy rethink.</p><br></br><p>The unreliability of wind means that it can only ever play a limited part in any effective energy policy.</p><br></br><p><i>,christian louboutin shoes? Struan Stevenson is a Conservative MEP for Scotland and the author of </i>So Much Wind — The Myth of Green Energy <i>— Birlinn 2013,Mulberry uk.</i></p><br></br><br></br><p><strong><big>Wind works: it’s clean,christian louboutin uk, cheap and creates jobs</big></strong><br></br>Wind power generates the equivalent of a fifth of Scotland’s electricity demand, cuts carbon emissions,cheap ghd straighteners, supports thousands of jobs and last year brought ?1.3 billion of investment to Scotland (Niall Stuart writes). The sector is doing exactly what it is designed to do; displace electricity generation from fossil fuels — and, longer term, with greater interconnection and storage, it can help to replace all polluting sources of energy.</p><br></br><p>Output from renewables — the majority of which came from wind — displaced a massive 8.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2011. A recent National Grid study showed that every unit of wind power saves 99.9 per cent of the CO2 that otherwise would have been emitted by the burning of fossil fuels. Scotland has never produced or exported so much electricity, yet carbon emissions from the power sector declined by more than a third between 2006 and 2011.</p><br></br><p>Renewables are already Scotland’s second-largest source of electricity and, with further growth in wind, will be the main source of power by the end of this year. Whether you like the way wind farms look or not, wind works — it’s as simple as that. Wind is also the cheapest source of low-carbon energy. The Department for Energy and Climate Change, Ofgem (the independent energy regulator) and the independent Climate Change Committee have all said that developing more renewables would keep energy bills lower than they would otherwise be if we continued "business as usual". Recent energy bill increases have been driven mainly by gas prices, which make up about half of household energy bills, not wind power,ghd straighteners, for which support for turbines adds less than ?12 a year to bills.</p><br></br><p>Maybe that is why public support remains so strong. A YouGov poll published last month found that the majority (64 per cent) of people in Scotland supported the continued development of onshore wind as part of our energy mix. Sixty-two per cent said that they would be "generally for" a large-scale wind project in their local area (almost double those who supported shale gas or nuclear power) and wind was one of the most favoured sources people wanted to see their electricity come from.</p><br></br><p>There is a legitimate debate about where wind farms should be sited,cheap ghd, but strong safeguards already exist to protect our iconic landscapes.</p><br></br><p>Having a strong industry attracts investment from overseas and helps to power us to the next chapter of our story — offshore wind and wave and tidal power. In the next couple of years we hope to see our first large-scale projects in the water, but their successful development will be in large part because of the commitment shown to onshore development.</p><br></br><p>Renewables are a growing part of our energy mix, with onshore wind now part of the mainstream and delivering a triple benefit: tackling climate change, driving investment and supporting jobs.</p><br></br><p><i>? Niall Stuart is chief executive of Scottish Renewables</i></p></div>

<div id="tab-5" class="ui-tabs-hide"><p class="small"></p><p></p><br></br><p><strong><big>Inefficient monsters have only a limited role</big></strong><br></br>Alex Salmond’s announcement that huge areas of the Highlands are to be declared "turbine free" is a case of too little, too late (Struan Stevenson writes). After 44,Global Marketing Executive with Milkround.com  The Times Jobs,cheap ghd straighteners,000 letters of objection,ghd, he has asked the Scottish government to mark out areas of Scottish wild land where no wind farm developments will be permitted.</p><br></br><p>I first called for Scotland to be zoned for renewables ten years ago. Germany, with more installed turbines than any other country in Europe, zoned its entire landmass and territorial waters, designating exactly where onshore and offshore turbines could be erected and where they could never be entertained. They involved local planners in this process, judging that they knew their areas and communities best.</p><br></br><p>The SNP government ignored this initiative and instead opened the floodgates for an avalanche of planning applications, many of them entirely speculative.</p><br></br><p>The result has been predictable. Energy companies, driven by the lure of huge subsidies, have inundated local authorities with plans for giant wind factories. Plans are under way or are in the pipeline for massive wind turbines towering over Loch Ness, surrounding Loch Lomond, encroaching on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park, overlooking the global architectural gem of Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast,Halifax says outlook uncertain for house prices  The Times, looming above the iconic Old Course in St Andrews and the Championship Course at Turnberry and destroying the beautiful hills and valleys of the Borders and Dumfries &amp; Galloway.</p><br></br><p>The subsidies for these monsters are passed to the consumer,Spring sun Sneeze and you’ll miss it  The Times, whose energy bills have rocketed to more than ?1,400 a year, driving over 900,000 Scottish households into fuel poverty. The inefficiency of wind turbines that produce electricity for only about 25 per cent of their 15 to 20-year lifespan means that the UK has to rely on more and more expensive imported gas to keep our lights on when the wind isn’t blowing. By 2020, average household bills could be over ?3,500 in Scotland.</p><br></br><p>The Scottish government’s energy policy has already wrecked large areas of Scotland’s most valuable landscape and only the deluded believe that even if Scotland was covered from end to end by turbines, it would make the slightest difference to global CO2 emissions.</p><br></br><p>Mr Salmond should remember that it is not only wild lands that need protection, it is also people,ray ban aviators, many of whom have had their lives ruined and their property values destroyed by having giant,ray ban, industrial turbines built in close proximity. Mr Salmond’s turbine-free zones will simply displace wind farms into other populated parts of Scotland. What we need is a complete policy rethink.</p><br></br><p>The unreliability of wind means that it can only ever play a limited part in any effective energy policy.</p><br></br><p><i>,christian louboutin shoes? Struan Stevenson is a Conservative MEP for Scotland and the author of </i>So Much Wind — The Myth of Green Energy <i>— Birlinn 2013,Mulberry uk.</i></p><br></br><br></br><p><strong><big>Wind works: it’s clean,christian louboutin uk, cheap and creates jobs</big></strong><br></br>Wind power generates the equivalent of a fifth of Scotland’s electricity demand, cuts carbon emissions,cheap ghd straighteners, supports thousands of jobs and last year brought ?1.3 billion of investment to Scotland (Niall Stuart writes). The sector is doing exactly what it is designed to do; displace electricity generation from fossil fuels — and, longer term, with greater interconnection and storage, it can help to replace all polluting sources of energy.</p><br></br><p>Output from renewables — the majority of which came from wind — displaced a massive 8.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2011. A recent National Grid study showed that every unit of wind power saves 99.9 per cent of the CO2 that otherwise would have been emitted by the burning of fossil fuels. Scotland has never produced or exported so much electricity, yet carbon emissions from the power sector declined by more than a third between 2006 and 2011.</p><br></br><p>Renewables are already Scotland’s second-largest source of electricity and, with further growth in wind, will be the main source of power by the end of this year. Whether you like the way wind farms look or not, wind works — it’s as simple as that. Wind is also the cheapest source of low-carbon energy. The Department for Energy and Climate Change, Ofgem (the independent energy regulator) and the independent Climate Change Committee have all said that developing more renewables would keep energy bills lower than they would otherwise be if we continued "business as usual". Recent energy bill increases have been driven mainly by gas prices, which make up about half of household energy bills, not wind power,ghd straighteners, for which support for turbines adds less than ?12 a year to bills.</p><br></br><p>Maybe that is why public support remains so strong. A YouGov poll published last month found that the majority (64 per cent) of people in Scotland supported the continued development of onshore wind as part of our energy mix. Sixty-two per cent said that they would be "generally for" a large-scale wind project in their local area (almost double those who supported shale gas or nuclear power) and wind was one of the most favoured sources people wanted to see their electricity come from.</p><br></br><p>There is a legitimate debate about where wind farms should be sited,cheap ghd, but strong safeguards already exist to protect our iconic landscapes.</p><br></br><p>Having a strong industry attracts investment from overseas and helps to power us to the next chapter of our story — offshore wind and wave and tidal power. In the next couple of years we hope to see our first large-scale projects in the water, but their successful development will be in large part because of the commitment shown to onshore development.</p><br></br><p>Renewables are a growing part of our energy mix, with onshore wind now part of the mainstream and delivering a triple benefit: tackling climate change, driving investment and supporting jobs.</p><br></br><p><i>? Niall Stuart is chief executive of Scottish Renewables</i></p></div>