Windfarms, Yachting on a collision course - this time in Scotland

4:23 AM Fri 25 Feb 2011 GMT

'Argyll Islands' .

Britain's Royal Yacht Association (RYA) has taken up the cudgel to support traditional sailing routes when those wanting to build wind farms place them across areas of water frequented by sailing boats. This time the issue is in Scotland, the proposed Kintyre Array of offshore windfarms, which will lie across acknowledged yachting routes. According to Forargyll, the RYA has written to Marine Scotland, raising a series of issues arising from the Scottish Government?s current consideration of the proposal for the Kintyre Array ?offshore? windfarm, claiming the area is 'not, by any stretch of the imagination, offshore. It is simply in ...

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