A few lonely lumps of land halfway to Norway that have no truck with Scottish independence and now risk becoming the Waterloo for the great green dream of 100% renewable energy by 2020.
That's the upshot of a recent Edinburgh Court of Session decision on the Viking wind farm. Brought about by objections from more than 2,000 Shetlanders, the judicial review by Lady Lynda Clark, of the Scottish government's permission last year for SSE and the local community trust, to erect 103 turbines across 130sq km has gone off like a rocket in these parts.
Bizarrely,
