DRIVING north up the A90 towards Aberdeen it is impossible to avoid the sight of posters urging against the building of large pylons across the area.

This is the pristine farmland immortalised in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic book Sunset Song and many locals are up in arms about the threat from the pylons on the area’s beauty.

The pylons of course are necessary to transport the growing amount of electricity being produced by windfarms in the north of Scotland down to the much more populated central belt.

In a way it encapsulates the conundrum which exists with wind turbines and highlights, perhaps, the biggest hurdle in the proliferation of green electricity production.

Everyone will say they fully support green energy but not when it lands in their own backyard.

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