Viking
submitted
its
original
application
for
a
150-turbine
wind
farm
in
May
2009
after
six
years
of
front-end
development
work,
but
the
project
immediately
became
a
lightning
rod
for
controversy,
with
more
than
10%
of
Shetland’s
22,000
people
filing
objections.
The
project,
which
would
be
one
of
the
largest
community-owned
wind
farms
in
Europe,
is
being
jointly
developed
by
Scottish
and
Southern
Energy.
In
addition
to
the
standard
complaints
about
the
visual
impact
of
the
wind
farm
and
the
“industrialisation”
of
central
Shetland’s
wildnerness,
opponents
also
flagged
up
concerns
the
environmental
impact
of…
