{"id":3547,"date":"2008-03-13T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/is-this-the-same-report\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T02:00:27","slug":"is-this-the-same-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/is-this-the-same-report\/","title":{"rendered":"is this the same report?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent BBC news story from Scotland leads with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/7292289.stm\">Wind farms could hit tourist jobs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wind farms could cost Scotland&#8217;s tourism industry millions of pounds and hundreds of jobs, a report has warned.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the findings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Publications\/2008\/03\/07113554\/0\">the report<\/a> are much milder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This research has shown that even using a worst case scenario the impact of current applications would be very small\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Our\u00c2\u00a0 overall conclusion is that the effects are so small that, provided planning and\u00c2\u00a0 marketing are carried out effectively, there is no reason why the two are\u00c2\u00a0 incompatible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it looks, as usual, as if the BBC is trying to make wind turbines look far worse than they really are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent BBC news story from Scotland leads with: Wind farms could hit tourist jobs Wind farms could cost Scotland&#8217;s tourism industry millions of pounds and hundreds of jobs, a report has warned. But the findings of the report are much milder: This research has shown that even using a worst case scenario the impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[857,1199,59],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-country","category-wind-things","tag-bbc","tag-scotland","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}