Turbine turbulence

The Scottish Government is facing calls for a “full review” into how Scotland has lost out on lucrative construction contracts for the massive Neart na Gaoithe wind farm project off the coast of Fife, with the work being outsourced

to Indonesia by France.

Perhaps this news article should have been listed under the ‘Crime’ headline,’

634TDJ It must be sickening if you once worked at one of these Fife yards only to watch these things being assembled on your doorstep having been built halfway around the world. What have the Greens to say about the carbon footprint of this ‘clean’ energy?

Ken Currie Why is this ‘Wind Speed’ windfarm named in a foreign language to the vast majority in Fife?

Jock Tamson For the same reason that Tweedbank Station in the Borders has a Gaelic name when the language itself was never spoken here.

Paul Holyrood So in a “climate emergency” it is good for the environment for this stuff to be fabricated in Indonesia and then brought to Scotland, then, is it?

Hazel Smith Only if you are an elected, highly paid SNP member at Holyrood does that make sense.

The View From Here I believe the fact is that under EU law the SG can’t make any demands on contractors favouring Scotland for public projects otherwise it becomes state aid to the private sector.

Dunnomuch If these turbines had been manufactured here in Scotland, then the environmental costs would have to be added to the Scottish climate gases loading, so it is not to good to the environment costs of Scotland. Far better to build them elsewhere, transport them by ship (using heavy fuel) to Scotland then the environmental costs can be placed elsewhere.

Gavin Beattie