Ben Collard, director of renewables at George F White, said he was advising his clients to set rentonland used for a wind turbine at ten per cent of the estimated income.
They may seem less brutal than the events in the Highlands but the Lowland clearances were just as effective at displacing country dwellers: by 1820 an entire social class of cottars - peasant farmers who had a traditional claim onland in return for rent or service to a landlord and who made up a third of the population - simply disappeared.
Their problem is common in Russia: They built onland leased from the city, paying rent and property taxes for 16 years, but never managed to obtain registration for the house.