Plans to build a hydroelectric scheme on the Queen’s Balmoral estate are to come under scrutiny from park chiefs amid concerns they may not fit the aims of a national park.
Environmentalists have called on the Scottish Government to stand up to global energy corporations which want to build windfarms on wild land.
Environmental campaigners claim that building a windfarm on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park would be like putting a Tesco supermarket in the Grand Canyon.
Developers and wilderness campaigners will be in Aviemore today to settle the timetable for a public inquiry into a controversial windfarm.
An energy firm has urged the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) to look "in more detail" at its plans to erect 83 turbines on hills above Loch Ness.
A protest group has lodged a formal objection to proposals to build more than 80 turbines as tall as the London Eye on hills overlooking Loch Ness.
Plans to build 31 wind turbines on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park have been called in by the Scottish Government.
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.