COMMENT: Politicians really need to pick a side over 'green' electricity
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As the invasive tentacles of Big ‘green’ Energy and its devastating infrastructure spread across rural Scotland we are regularly subjected to the politicians’ and industry’s buzz words to persuade us that succumbing to the industrialisation of where we live is for the ‘greater good’. Greater for whom?
Not Scotland and certainly not the innocents steamrollered out of the way by multinational companies with no connection or love for the areas they spear their industrial junk in to.
‘Green’ electricity doesn’t exist if it is produced at the expense of the environment, wildlife, communities.
‘Clean’ generation can’t exist if it relies on fossil fuels and massively increases demand for metal and rare earth mining, much of it unregulated and highly polluting, for its manufacture, construction, operation and back up.
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Communities ‘hosting’ these massive ‘green’ power stations insinuates that they were invited and happily accepted. In the natural world hosts are needed by parasites to feed off to survive. They destroy and suck the life blood out of their targets. As rural people feel in despair, helpless and downtrodden by the Scottish government backed ‘green’ invaders, it is understandable where the word ‘host’ came from.
The phrases ‘just transition’ and ‘wind parks’ are ludicrous. Where is the ‘just transition’ in areas where vast pylon lines and substations are threatened? Where is the amenity and pleasure in seeing monstrous rotating cash machines slicing through once peaceful and undisturbed vistas?
‘Net zero’ is bandied about with no figures or data to back up what it means to us financially or environmentally. How much more industrialisation does Scotland need on its hills, mountains and in its rural communities and glens before we reach this elusive target?
Can our elected representatives just be honest and tell us the facts? We are not stupid and it is time they stopped treating us like we are.
The faux ‘green’ movement has been allowed to become all powerful and seemingly without accountability. They are in government, shaping policies and the beneficiaries of their actions are filling their shareholders bank accounts with our hard earned money while our land and oceans are sacrificed on their warped altar of ‘sustainability’.
The deceptive cloak of ‘green’ attempts to hide the inconvenient truth of what is fast being revealed as anything but by those who are prepared to stand up and say no to the immoral and destructive policies being forced upon them.
Our politicians need to pick a side. They are either with us or against us.
Lyndsey Ward
Spokeswoman for Communitie4s B4 Power Companies
Beauly
