Letters / It will change our lives forever
It’s been three years since I last wrote anything about the wind farm; Monday’s news has motivated me (Ofgem strike blow to Viking Energy 7 May 2012)
I’m not interested in the money or the input or output, but I would like to tell Fergus Ewing not to waste his ‘energy’ to find us the best deal.
We also don’t need any scientists to tell us their point of view either; we live here and the devastation this whole scheme will have on our homeland will change our lives forever, it’s as simple as that.
They can take their facts and figures and argue about it as long as they like, at the end of the day it’s up to us who live here, and if we don’t want it now is the time to unite. Shetland is too small to have a wind farm of this size.
Offshore island, yes, let’s put it there, as long as it’s not on anybody else’s doorstep.
This is probably the most important issue we have had to contend with since the discovery of oil, reckon we handled that well and we have prospered because of it, but this is a whole new ball game.
I don’t want to see our islands disfigured, but it looks like the whole thing is out of our hands. I can hardly believe this is happening, hopefully something can be done.
Carole Radford
Lerwick
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