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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Price" data-source="post: 1621390" data-attributes="member: 79902">Doesn't a properly managed moorland remove carbon from the atmosphere?And on that note doesn't damaging peat add lots of carbon to the atmosphere?Consider the roads that will need to be built to get the cranes and trucks up there to build these things plus a site of 21 sq km or over 5000 acres thats an awful lot of moor land destroyed its not like we are talking about a power source that is going to result in any less coal powered power stations,due to the unreliable winds that power them they can be quite inefficient.</blockquote>