RSPB Scotland has won a legal challenge over the decision by Scottish ministers to allow four large offshore wind farms to be erected in the outer firths of the Forth and Tay
The Scotsman writes:
Conservationists have won a legal bid against the decision by Scottish ministers to allow four large offshore wind farms to be erected in the outer firths of the Forth and Tay.
Consent was given for a total of 335 turbines at the Inch Cape, Neart na Gaoithe, and Seagreen Alpha and Bravo schemes in 2014, but RSPB Scotland campaigners insist they pose too great a risk to globally important seabirds…. The developments were expected to provide 2.284 gigawatts of green energy, enough to power over 1.4 million homes every year… Many environmentalists had welcomed the plans but RSPB Scotland said the impact on seabirds would be too great.
The Court of Session has now quashed the consent, so the four projects cannot proceed.
Read more…. and for background see the RSPB website
