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• Patron of Northern Lighthouse Board incredulous at Tiree Array proposal
  I was just responding to your own post, pm. It is pretty clear that major industrial economies across the world, including the two you mentioned yourself, are investing heavily in renewables including wind power. Thus your view that wind development is nothing but an economic ‘millstone’ does not appear to be widely shared.

  Your point about using per-capita figures is fair enough – but I notice you focused solely on China, and did not highlight that Germany’s wind capacity is around 3 times higher than the UK’s on that basis, and that even the US is ahead of us.

  Are you sure that it would be cheaper to invest all our money in developing another country’s renewable resources, and a huge (and hopefully very reliable) cable to bring the power over, than to just invest in our own – which are by all accounts the best in Europe?

• Patron of Northern Lighthouse Board incredulous at Tiree Array proposal
  China has 76GW of wind capacity and is expected to reach 100GW by 2015.

  Germany has 31GW of wind capacity and rising fast.

  The US has 60GW of wind capacity, also rising fast.

  The UK has less than 10GW of wind capacity.

  There doesn’t seem to be much sign that building wind farms leads to economic problems.

• Fabulous results for Campbeltown AFC and Lochgilphead Red Star
  And there’s more… Oban Saints under-14s also lifted a Dumbarton Football Development League Cup for their age-group on Sunday 12th May, at the end of a close-fought final with runners-up Lochgilphead Red Star u14s. The score was 4-3 at the Bet Butler stadium in Dumbarton.

  The cup success comes close to the end of a fantastic season for these boys who are also currently at the top of their 11-team league, with three games still to play.

  A vintage year for Argyll youth football!

• Patron of Northern Lighthouse Board incredulous at Tiree Array proposal
  Whatever the many factors to be taken into account by the Holyrood government when they come to consider this project, I doubt they will give much weight to a one-line comment given to the Daily Mail by a lady whose knowledge of the project to date appears to be: “They gave planning permission for 700 windmills on the reef around Skerryvore…”

  More amusing still is a comment later in the same article (and preceding another saying how advantageous it is to be able to see so much of the country from one’s helicopter): “The Princess Royal said Americans in particular tended to be awestruck by the wilderness in Scotland, adding: ‘They can’t get a grip of the fact that you’ve got all these people living here yet you get these remarkable empty vistas’”

  Not that remarkable when you consider that much of the wilderness was created 150 years ago by her ‘sort’ forcing most of the ‘people living here’ off to… America! You’d think they of all people would have a pretty good grip of that

• Patron of Northern Lighthouse Board incredulous at Tiree Array proposal
  Malcolm – I’m not sure how requesting the source of a comment is ‘wrong again’… but thanks for the link anyway.

  It doesn’t look like it amounts to a ‘slow collapse’ to me, but I suppose it’s not that surprising that the Hootsmon and the Trump Organisation would spin it that way.

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