SNP admits to felling 16 million trees to develop wind farms in Scotland

Scottish Tory MSP Liam Kerr said figure would astonish the public and communities all over the country had cited concerns about the projects 

"The SNP wind power target includes replacing existing turbines that may be coming to the end of their working life with even taller and larger versions 

• Almost 16 million trees have been chopped down on publicly owned land in Scotland to make way for wind farms, an SNP minister had admitted amid a major drive to erect more turbines...