{"id":314412,"date":"2025-08-03T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:42:18","slug":"consent-for-gigantic-wind-farm-is-an-ironic-act-of-ecocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314412\/","title":{"rendered":"Consent for gigantic wind farm is an ironic act of ecocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The irony is that Holyrood<\/a> is contemplating the introduction of an ecocide bill \u2013 at the very time the [[Scottish Government]] is complicit in ecocide committed by renewable energy companies on an ever-expanding scale.\n<\/p>\n

\n We note \u201cSSE Renewables<\/a> will have to provide a plan to counter any impact the wind farm may have on seabirds\u201d, but this is thin gruel, especially as SSE is quoted as admitting in its own environmental impact assessment that more than 31,000 bird collisions are estimated during its lifespan.\n<\/p>\n

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\n What will its proposed \u201cmitigation\u201d provide? It is to be hoped it will be something better than the farcically inappropriate plans that Equinor has put in place to construct an inappropriately sited nesting habitat for Arctic Terns hundreds of miles from its proposed massive wind farm extension off the coast of Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n

\n Whatever it is, it is difficult to see how it can provide more than a small sticking plaster for an act of ecocide.\n<\/p>\n

\n The Scottish Government may well have shot itself in the foot here. People who would not normally object to a wind farm are sickened by this decision. The sleeping giant of Joe Public has awakened.\n<\/p>\n

\n Aileen Jackson<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n Scotland Against Spin<\/strong>, Uplawmoor<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n THE story about House of Lords<\/a> peers warning UK recognition of Palestine<\/a> may \u201cbreach international law\u201d (Jul 31) is revealing, not just for what it says about Westminster<\/a>, but for what it exposes about Scotland\u2019s position.\n<\/p>\n

\n The peers cite the Montevideo Convention, claiming Palestine doesn\u2019t qualify as a state because it lacks a defined territory, unified government and full diplomatic capacity. This argument is flawed because the UK never signed the convention \u2014 it\u2019s a regional treaty drafted in 1933 by US states, not global law \u2013 and even if you accept it as a standard, it backfires spectacularly when applied to Scotland. Let\u2019s test the same criteria:\n<\/p>\n