WINDFARM protestors will stage a demonstration in Inverness next week to persuade councillors to lodge their objections to plans to build turbines on the edges of the Cairngorms National Park.
Members of the Save the Monadliath Mountains group will gather outside the Highland council’s headquarters on Tuesday before a meeting of the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey planning committee.
The meeting is due to discuss RWE npower renewables’ plans for 31 turbines on the Alvie, Dalraddy and Dunachton estates, near Kincraig.
The turbines, which will reach 410ft, will be just 440 yards from the national park’s western boundary and could provide power for up to 43,000 homes.
The Scottish Government will decide the plans.
Campaigners claim that the plans would be “devastating” and have called for the Scottish Government to launch a public inquiry.
Formal objections have been lodged by the Cairngorms National Park Authority, the John Muir Trust, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, and the Scottish Campaign for National Parks.
