Every wind electricity generation site proposal by developers is supported by a claim that it will provide electricity for thousands of homes and will save a quantified level of carbon dioxide emissions by displacing fossil fuel power generation.

Analysis of these claims and adding up the alleged total number of homes supplied shows that well over one million homes (almost half the total in Scotland) should now be powered by wind-generated electricity. To fulfil the claimed emission reduction benefit, one of our fossil-fuelled power stations should have been closed by now - but it has not.

This surely exposes the lack of credibility and veracity in the environmental benefit claims regularly made by politicians and the wind lobby. The despoiling of our countryside, plus huge subsidies for wind turbines and consequent higher electricity costs, would seem to be for no benefit whatsoever, except, of course, to developers and landowners.