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Shake-up demanded in rules over wind farm applications
There must be a shake-up of the application system for wind farms to prevent time and money being wasted, it was claimed today.
Tory deputy leader Murdo Fraser said that there were "no real guidelines" to show developers which sites were appropriate.
This has led to a "barrage" of applications being submitted for sites in Perthshire and the Stirling area that should not be considered, the mid-Scotland and Fife MSP claimed.
Much time and money were then wasted by both the developers and anti-wind farm campaigners confronting each other, when no application should have been made in the first place, he said.
January 1, 2008
by Sam Reeves
in The Herald
There must be a shake-up of the application system for wind farms to prevent time and money being wasted, it was claimed today.
Tory deputy leader Murdo Fraser said that there were "no real guidelines" to show developers which sites were appropriate.
This has led to a "barrage" of applications being submitted for sites in Perthshire and the Stirling area that should not be considered, the mid-Scotland and Fife MSP claimed.
Much time and money were then wasted by both the developers and anti-wind farm campaigners confronting each other, when no application should have been made in the first place,... [continue via Web link]
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