Should we put turbines everywhere?

[CrofterMannie]

I don't mind the sight of turbines in the hills but wish they could find a way of installing and maintaining them without requiring so much roads.

Taking one of my locals (Dunmaglass, +/- 100MW) as fairly typical for a windfarm in the hills it has around 33km of roads.

The amount of roads built into 'wild' areas in Scotland that have never been accessable by road, over the last 20 years, is incredible and must run into 10s of thousands of km. Some of these are not small roads either, the main access track into Farr windfarm must be 10m wide and could easily take HGVs going in both directions.

(The other major road builder is Shooting estates who have been just just as bad over the last few years, driving lots of new roads deep into areas that have never been accessable by vehicle. And shooting estates often just ignore the need for planning permission so there are no effective controls on them building roads at all)