SNP ministers have been accused of making a “calamitous error” by selling offshore windfarm licences around Scotland’s coast for a fraction of what comparable sites have been sold for.
Kenny MacAskill - a former SNP minister who is now an Alba MP - said the country “has been sold out on the cheap” after discovering that windfarms sites on the other side of the Atlantic are going for record sums.
Last year the Scottish Government and the Crown Estate - which owns the seabed - trumpeted the £700 million raised in an auction which saw 2,700 square miles off the coast of Scotland licensed for 17 giant windfarm projects.
