Wiping out wildlife is abhorrent way to save planet

Sir, – Many environmentalists will be appalled that Gordon Brown wants BiFab’s Fife yards to secure a ‘foothold in the North Sea’ (Courier, March 9).

These giant, destructive, monstrosities should never have been approved in the first place.

He seems to have forgotten the RSPB were so incensed by the hugely-damaging Firth of Forth offshore wind farms, they described them as “the most damaging wind farms for seabirds anywhere in the world” and the Firth of Forth as “of international importance to wildlife”.

They were so appalled by the Scottish Government’s cavalier attitude to birdlife they took them all the way to the Supreme Court.

The RSPB also objected to the Moray West offshore wind farm, describing the environmental assessment submitted by the project as “incomplete and inadequate”.

They added that the initiative could “spell disaster for some of our most valued seabird populations”.

The RSPB, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), the John Muir Trust, Shetland Amenity Trust, Shetland Bird Club and Sustainable Shetland, along with the majority of the 2,736 residents, objected to the Viking Wind Farm in Shetland.

The rotor blades of a wind turbine have a radius as long as a football field and rotate at 300kmh.

Against these huge propeller walls, birds, bats and insects don’t stand a chance.

The German wind insect death toll is an astonishing one-third of the total annual insect migration in southern England.

A staggering 1,200 tonnes a year. Wiping out wildlife is an utterly abhorrent way to ‘save the planet’.

George Herraghty. Lothlorien Lhanbryde, Elgin,

Moray.