Opposition to wind farms in Kintyre is not new, with some people campaigning against onshore renewable development for decades.
While their reasons are many and varied, often high among them is the risk of setting a precedent that would lead to the proliferation of turbines across Kintyre.
And it seems that those of that opinion may have been correct.
In an article in the Courier in 1999 about Kintyre’s second wind farm, it was said that a report to the then Mid Argyll, Kintyre and Islay Area Committee suggested that they were likely to be the only two in Kintyre as there was “little capacity for further wind farms within the Kintyre peninsula”.
One look at a map of Kintyre’s operational and consented wind farms, as well as those at the scoping stage, awaiting a planning decision or at appeal, shows that, today, there is barely any space that hasn’t been considered for development.
Are concerned Kintyre residents just wasting their time and energy responding to consultations and commenting on planning applications when the responses of our community councils and even Argyll and Bute Council are overruled?
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