The 300-plus households in this rural village are set fair on their course to
become a zero-carbon, zero-waste community. When the wind-farm developer
came knocking at the door of the community council seeking backing for its new
development, Fintry rejected the standard benefits package in favour of far
bigger aspirations. It took four years of negotiation but they pulled it off.
The....5.... the deal is that the village gets to use none of its own renewable
power: the structure of the national grid makes that impossible. What the wind
turbine grinds out for the 550 villagers is cash. The money all goes into the Fintry
Development Trust (FDT), set up to reduce the village's energy use and carbon
emissions.