16 Million Trees Cut Down to Make Way for Wind Farms, Scottish National Party Reveals

MRC TV ^ | July 24, 2023 | Craig Bannister

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16 Million Trees Cut Down to Make Way for Wind Farms, Scottish National Party Reveals

Nearly 16 million carbon-catching trees have been cut down in Scotland since 2000 – in order to erect carbon-saving wind turbines – the Scottish National Party (SNP) admitted last week.

An estimated 15.7 million trees – or about 1,700 per day – have been cut down on public land managed by Forestry and Land Scotland, Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon revealed in a letter to Scottish Tory MSP (Member of Scottish Parliament) Liam Kerr, who called the news “astonishing.”

Sacrificing trees to build wind farms comes at a price to both wildlife and businesses, MSP Kerr warns, according to an article by The Telegraph:

“I’ve been contacted many times by rural communities all over the country questioning the location of these developments, sharing legitimate concerns not just about the visual impact but also damage to wildlife and business. Now we learn there’s significant damage when it comes to trees.”

“He said [Scotland’s] ministers ‘must be alive’ to the ‘significant costs’ that could be incurred with the siting of wind farms.”

Ironically, “The revelation came despite the nationalist party boasting about its green credentials, and being involved in a coalition with the Scottish Greens,” Scottish Daily Express notes. “It forms part of the SNP administration's plans to make Scotland net zero over the next decade,” The Express explains.

In an interview with GB News, MSP Kerr said he has now sent a letter to the cabinet secretary asking for data on how much carbon is saved by wind farms, in comparison to the amount sequestered by trees:

“If they’re going to say it is better to have wind farms than it is to have forestry, then they must surely have that data. Because, if they don’t, I think that would be very concerning, indeed.”

“Trees Are Climate Change, Carbon Storage Heroes,” the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) declares in an article describing how trees remove carbon from the air and store it, because they need it in order to grow.

“Joanie got it wrong: they did ‘pave paradise’ and they did take down the trees – but, they didn’t ‘put ‘em in a tree museum,” a GB News host quipped, quoting the song ”Big Yellow Taxi,” by Joni Mitchell.

[Pajamajan]

Insanity! What is wrong with these people?

[philman_36]

The Germans cut down trees to burn in their wood burning stoves for heat...

We've been selling wood pellets internationally from at least one local company for a while. I believe they were, or still are, shipping to Germany.

The Port Arthur terminal has a five-silo pellet storage facility and a shipping terminal located in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.
Port Arthur location is less than two hours from sea buoy to dock. The port is connected to the KCS Railroad providing direct intermodal service to and from major markets of the U.S. and Canada.

They chip the wood up north before they truck it to compress it into pellets at the port facility down south.
The chips could have been used for pellets, but it's probably gone by now if it were.

[philman_36]

Useful...
How I converted a Wood Stove to a Pellet Rocket Stove DIY

Many videos like it.

Pellets ain't just for smokin' meat!
(some assembly required)

[philman_36]

Graanul Invest Group pellet production capacity is 2,98 million short tons per year.
We are the second-largest pellet producer in the world and the largest in Europe.

Even seems that even with solutions there are still problems.

[philman_36]

Even seems that even...
Deja vu!

It seems that even...

[MNDude]

Those trees will decay which will release hundreds of tons of CO2 into the air

[Mark17]

Last winter, The Germans cut down trees to burn in their wood burning stoves for heat since they’ve shut down nuke and coal plants.

Maybe the Black Forest, won’t be so black anymore.

[Lean-Right]

Can’t wait for the windmill
seed to be developed. /s
Cutting down trees and
replacing them with windmills.
Facepalm.

[Mr Radical]

As this is the work of Forestry and Land Scotland (a government agency) these trees will most likely be plantations of non-native species such as conifers and spruce - which ruin the landscape and the wildlife. Good riddance!

[neverevergiveup]

Pure stupidity.

[spincaster]

16 million trees produce a lot of clean oxygen . These people are truly retarded.

[avenir]

“If this is true, this story is being loose with facts.”

I keep running into this on the web, people freely lying to sweeten a story or create one. They justify it with “everyone is doing it so I have to”. Even decent YouTube channels resort to those stupid mugging pictures in their thumbnails, as well as “That’s It. I’m leaving. Goodbye” bs when they are just rebranding the channel or making some change.

[Jonty30]

It’s the same with the environmental movement. They run a story how a pipeline leaked 4 million litres before it was stopped. It sounds horrible until you do the math and it’s a 30’ puddle or something non-consequential.

[Reverend Wright]

Well, Germany is banning wood stoves, as well.

https://iowaclimate.org/2023/05/21/germanys-growing-list-of-bans-next-up-wood-stoves-and-heating-with-wood-2/

[Soul of the South]

In my rural area I’ve see thousands of acres of woodland and meadows bulldozed for solar farms and monster windmills. Meanwhile in the nearby city there are thousands of acres of asphalt parking lots and large commercial building (shopping centers, warehouses, schools, factories, office building) roofs where solar panels could have been installed without cutting down trees or bulldozing grass. Putting solar panels overhead in urban parking lots would have the added advantage of providing shade to parked cars during hot summer months. Plus the electricity generated would not have to travel as far to its point of use.

The destruction of natural woodlands and grassland to install green energy production, instead of using land already ruined by urbanization, is more evidence the green movement is not about climate change.

[Mark17]

Well, Germany is banning wood stoves, as well.

I wonder if it’s a population reduction scheme?

[Reverend Wright]

Maybe. Maybe just deliberate population immiseration.

If you assume all these politicians hate the poopulations they rule, their behaviour makes sense.

[joshua c]

clear cut the forest
chop up the birds
very earth friendly

[Mark17]

If you assume all these politicians hate the populations they rule, their behaviour makes sense.

I definitely assume that.

[Cobra64]

The whole planet has gone ape-Shiite