I agree with Val's comments that the highlands are not just a playground and people actually work in this area.
My main grump is more. To do with the subsidies that the land owners receive each your from the system to house these turbines. In the Scottish Field magazine (Sept issue) there is a good article which explains the fact that Scottish land owners bag over £1billion in subsidy. The article gives examples of the Duke of Roxburgh pocketing £1.5M per year for hosting 48 turbines.The Earl of Moray is estimated to receive £2M from 49 turbines at the Braes of Doune Stirling.
You will never hear the landowners refusing this kind of easy income whether the are in the south, central belt or north Scotland.
We are paying for these subsidies via our energy bills.

It's doubtful that the Scottish landowners receive £1bn because in 2012/13 the total UK Renewables subsidy amounted to £2bn.

It's more likely that Scottish Renewables receive that figure, and not the Landowners, although they do trouser an obscene amount to wreck the landscapes. Typically, landowners receive between £10k and £15k per turbine per year for large turbines.

For instance, Sir Jack Hayward will receive £9M over 25 years in rentals for the 33 turbines that make up Dumnaglass wind farm.

The really bad news is that wind turbines subsidies (thought by many to be reducing in scale) are more likely going to receive a boost after the Energy Bill is passed:

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The proposals will see onshore wind having a strike price of £100/MWh, offshore wind £155/MWh, when the typical wholesale electricity price will be about £50/MWh

Wind power generated on the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland is to receive an additional £15/MWh. Expect to see a renewed rush of applications.

There is an excellent article in the Autumn edition of the John Muir Trust Journal on the threat to the Monadh Liath

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See page 16.