Lots of offshore wind from Alex

Calton is a bit worried about where Alex Salmond's 'tens of thousands of jobs' to do with the offshore wind industry is going to come from. If a development of 350 turbines planned for the Moray Firth is only going to provide 280 long-term jobs, it looks like our coastline is going to disappear in a forest of offshore windfarms in order to meet Alex's figures. Either that or the First Minister is being somewhat disingenuous in not making it clear that the tens of thousands of jobs are only in the construction phase. Even then, the Moray Firth development is only expected to provide 1400 temporary construction jobs. Calton is not totally against offshore wind farms but is concerned that the Highlands is once again being fobbed off with another boom and bust industry rather than sustainable developments and improvements to infrastructure which would benefit locals in the long term.