Martin Laing (November 6) makes a very valid point when he decries the siting of a wind farm as a background to Stirling Castle but he is not alone in being a nimby. The same situation is replicated all over Scotland. The wind farm on Ochils was approved by the executive in the face of unanimous opposition from local people and the refusal by the local planning authority to grant permission. Planning permission for the proposed wind farm in Ayrshire’s Doon Valley was refused but the developer is coming back with a revised proposal for slightly fewer turbines which will not change the fact that the proposal is totally unacceptable to the local people. There is a proposal for a wind farm near Culzean Castle to which the National Trust for Scotland, along with the local population, has objected.

There are scores of these applications in the pipeline which will, no doubt, be rejected by local people and possibly refused planning permission by local authorities only for permission to be granted by the Scottish Executive in a misguided attempt to be seen to be “green”.

The Beauly-to-Denny super grid line is designed to facilitate further wholesale desecration of our landscape and for what? We do not need the generating capacity these monsters provide and any lifetime saving in carbon emissions is likely to be at best marginal and at worst zero. The only beneficiaries are the electricity companies and the developers. They get the (subsidised) profit and the rest of us get industrial blight in our countryside. What sort of bargain is that? Could it be that the nimbys have got it right?