Environment

The energy crisis is one of the most pressing and significant problems the world has to face. With limited resources of fossil fuels left, and the additional political and environmental issues that surround their use, it is clear that life on earth cannot continue as it is without the development of alternative sources of power. In Britain, many are wary of expanding the nuclear energy programme. The Scottish Government’s obsession with gigantic industrial wind turbines, which have ravaged great tracts of Scotland’s pristine landscape and have added to carbon pollution by de-forestation and digging up ancient peatlands, are counterproductive. Struan has devoted much of his time to exposing Scotland's green energy myth.

The truth is that wind turbines violate the principle of fairness by transferring vast amounts of money from the poor to the rich. They despoil our unique landscape and environment; they risk plunging the nation into a devastating energy crisis and through noise, the flicker-effect and vibration, they abuse the health and welfare of people and animals that have to live near them. They are visual monstrosities that produce only a trickle of electricity at vast cost to the consumer and they do not significantly reduce CO2emissions.

Struan’s best-selling book ‘SO MUCH WIND – The Myth of Green Energy’ charts his arguments against the SNP’s obsession with wind and favours a future based on the exploitation of hydrogen.