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Beauly to Denny power plans condemned at public inquiry Print E-mail
Tuesday, 24 April 2007

An expert witness has condemned plans for the controversial Beauly to Denny power line at the ongoing public inquiry today.

Former head of Scottish National Heritage Professor Roger Crofts hit out at the plans and claimed a lack of coherent government policy for renewable energy.

Crofts, currently an environmental and management adviser, said: “To date, there has been no national locational strategy for onshore wind turbine location and the Scottish Executive has consistently refused to provide one. The applicants for the power line claim that the government policy is clear. But this is far from the case.

“Government is clear in supporting renewables sources for electricity generation but is not clear on the technologies or the locations to be used to deliver this. In addition the Minister's position in deciding on the application is prejudiced by unambiguous statements in favour of the upgrading of the Beauly Denny in the National Planning Framework and in DTI documents. The reporters must disregard these statements if there is to be a fair and transparent inquiry; otherwise the public can only assume that the outcome is a foregone conclusion.”

The original proposal to replace the existing overhead line was submitted by subsidiaries of Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish Power. In 2005 the companies published the proposed route, which will replace the existing line between Beauly, west of Inverness, and Denny, west of Falkirk.

Scottish Ministers announced in August 2006 that the proposed upgrade to the line would be referred to a public inquiry.
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