17/10/2025
Couldn’t agree more 🙁
“Profit for energy companies is being dressed up as climate action.
"Scotland’s land is being scarred while the supposed climate benefits are dwarfed by corporate interests that bring little back to this country.”
E+T Magazine highlighted our call from our Director of Land and Policy, David Fleetwood, for an urgent national conversation about how we decarbonise without destroying Scotland's landscapes.
David said "It is crucial that we continue to decarbonise our energy supply, but this must be done in an organised way, supported by a planning system capable of making strategic decisions to ensure we don't address one crisis by causing another."
If you want to help us ensure that decisions about the future of our energy infrastructure are strategic and take account of interests including the future of our wild places, check out: https://www.johnmuirtrust.org/whats-new/news/1905-industrialisation-of-scotlands-wild-heartland-must-be-put-to-an-end
And read the E+T article here: https://eandt.theiet.org/2025/10/13/ps15bn-chinese-turbine-factory-plan-scotland-lands-green-groups-warn-steady-creep
