Sheep, deer and now windfarms?

At last - someone on the Yes campaign talking sense about a Scottish currency post-independence. Dennis Canavan usually does talk sense, which makes Calton wonder why he is backing Yes Scotland? Oh well, we all have our blind spots, although Canavan is spot on with his analysis of why Scotland should have its own currency rather than Sterling. Unfortunately the SNP continue to be deaf as well as blind to the views of their Yes Scotland partners, or perhaps Calton should say fortunately, as it plays right into the hands of the unionists and Calton is becoming more pro-union with every day that passes.

Talking of blind spots, it looks like Calton is going to need a few when he visits the mountains in future. If the new plans to protect wild land from wind farm development go ahead, he will be safe from flying into a turbine, however, it looks like the pockets of designated mountainous wild land are going to be surrounded by seas of turbines and so the view is hardly going to be unspoilt. Also, some very scenic and wild lower areas are not included in the core areas of wild land drawn up by SNH, notably large parts of Ardgour, Ardnamurchan, Moidart and Morar, which presumably means that they will be targeted by windfarm developers. This seems completely crass given the near-impossibility of building any houses in some of those areas due to draconian planning restrictions. If new houses have been deemed to be detrimental to the scenic nature of eg Moidart, how much more detrimental will wind turbines be! Calton thinks that SNH should go away and think again.