Wind burned

Brian Monteith expertly explains the energy problem (Perspective, 19 March).

We all owe a tremendous debt to Home Secretary Amber Rudd for cutting subsidies for wind energy. She understood the problem as explained in the article. Why members of the Scottish Government do not grasp this, I do not know. How many years have there been letters on this page on this subject? They are still passing wind farm applications, overruling councils.

There are no more wind farms being approved in England now councils have control. Why in Scotland?

CELIA HOBBS

Peebles Road Penicuik, Midlothian

In his programme The Battle for Scotland’s Countryside on BBC Scotland last Wednesday, David Hayman made a good job of summarising almost 200 years of threats to the access and amenity of Scotland’s countryside and the various victories along the way that make us the envy of the world, particularly, as he liked to remind us, compared to England.

It was surprising, therefore, that he never mentioned the biggest current threat to our countryside, which is the proliferation of wind farms across our countryside, the consequent effect on local tourist economies, the dubious benefit it has on energy security and continuity of economic provision, and the undemocratic way that local decisions on massive corporate ventures are overruled by the Scottish Government.

ALLAN SUTHERLAND Willow Row, Stonehaven