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Article: Bid to ban peatland wind farms comes under attack Tory Struan Stevenson accused of 'bad science' and 'showboating' Tory Struan Stevenson accused of 'bad science' and 'showboating' ENVIRONMENT: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- July 6, 2008
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A HIGH-PROFILE campaign to ban wind farms from peat bogs has come
under sustained attack in the wake of new scientific evidence on
climate pollution.
Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson has been campaigning
for a moratorium on wind developments on peatlands. Damaging the
peat causes the release of more carbon dioxide than wind farms save,
he alleges.
But Stevenson's claims have now been called into question by an
expert report published by the Scottish government. And he has been
accused of "bad science" by the wind industry and "showboating" by a
fellow MEP - accusations he dismisses as "fatuous".
The row has flared up because Stevenson has put down an amendment
to the proposed ...