The Current Position
1. Does the current pipeline and level of activity in the offshore wind sector in Scotland provide a sufficient platform upon which to build the greater contribution required to achieve our climate change goals?
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Keep the bird choppers completely out of bits migratory lanes, by 50 kilometers distant, at least. For all birds yet killed, assign lengthy fines via a board of inquiry with prosecutorial powers. Save our wildlife!
2. Do you believe that the 2030 visions and aspirations described above are sufficiently ambitious?
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3. What actions do you believe should be taken by the Scottish Government, UK Government and agencies in order to realise the full potential of Scotland’s offshore wind sector?
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Keep the bird choppers completely out of bird migratory lanes, by 50 kilometers distant, at least. For all birds yet killed, assign lengthy fines via a board of inquiry with prosecutorial powers. Save our wildlife! Keep the "Mental" out of environmental!
Barriers to Deployment
4. What are the key regulatory and cost challenges facing the offshore wind sector?
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It is time to let wind stand on its own. Our government cannot afford expensive subsidies for wind. Eliminate all wind power subsidies.
Increase the regulatory burden for Big Wind's slaughter of migratory and endangered and threatened birds and bats, and enforce EXISTING laws and fines. Have mandatory CCTV at all turbine sites, with a board to review videos weekly, with executive power to assess fines and/or criminal penalties.
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Increase the regulatory burden for Big Wind's slaughter of migratory and endangered and threatened birds and bats, and enforce EXISTING laws and fines. Have mandatory CCTV at all turbine sites, with a board to review videos weekly, with executive power to assess fines and/or criminal penalties.
7. What more can the Scottish Government do, working with industry and other stakeholders, to address ‘knowledge gaps’ in environmental assessments for potential offshore wind developments?
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As I said above, install CCTV to monitor each existing turbine site (at the corporation's expense, of course) to assess bird/bat mortality/morbidity.on a weekly or monthly basis. Have a committee with power to assess fines and/or criminal penalties with a sliding scale according to each animals threatened status.
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Innovation and Cost Reduction
20. What can the Scottish Government most usefully and feasibly do to build on the innovation support previously and currently available?
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Please eliminate all subsidies to wind farms. Big Wind must, after all these years, be able to stand on their own feet. we, the Scottish people, remain daft ha'porth, if we keep supporting this scam, with all the cheap North Shore oil at our doorsteps.
Our GDP has Not grown, standing at 0.0% averaged over the past 2 quarters.
Not to mention the bird/bat slaughter at the "hands" of these behemoths.
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Our GDP has Not grown, standing at 0.0% averaged over the past 2 quarters.
Not to mention the bird/bat slaughter at the "hands" of these behemoths.
22. Where respondents believe that scope remains for innovation in fixed offshore wind, what areas should be prioritised?
Please explain your view.
Safety and security.
Install CCTV with automatic bird/bat kill monitoring. Also, electronic AI stems to tabulate fines for killing birds in an escalated scale, with endangered being the highest penalty, then threatened, etc., down to simple unthreatened. A committee containing biochemists statisticians and ecologists, comprising those who are not feeding at the government trough, via grants and salaries. This committee will have fining and referral for prosecution powers, for referral to national criminal agencies for prosecution.
Remove all wind power subsidies. The $5 million can be applied to needful causes. It is past time that wind stands on its own legs. Let us Scottish people cease being daft ha'porth and smarten up!
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Install CCTV with automatic bird/bat kill monitoring. Also, electronic AI stems to tabulate fines for killing birds in an escalated scale, with endangered being the highest penalty, then threatened, etc., down to simple unthreatened. A committee containing biochemists statisticians and ecologists, comprising those who are not feeding at the government trough, via grants and salaries. This committee will have fining and referral for prosecution powers, for referral to national criminal agencies for prosecution.
Remove all wind power subsidies. The $5 million can be applied to needful causes. It is past time that wind stands on its own legs. Let us Scottish people cease being daft ha'porth and smarten up!
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Bob Campbell
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