BBC bans Scottish windfarm film
A film about the impact of a wind farm in the Highlands of Scotland has been banned by the BBC on the grounds that it breaks the corporation’s objectivity rules.
However, Bafta-nominated documentary maker David Graham Scott, who made the film, said: “This was not meant to be a political film. It is more about the impact of modernity on an ancient landscape.
“I don’t have a problem with the BBC’s impartiality guidelines, but I think my film has been misinterpreted. I wouldn’t want to alter the film to get it broadcast, as that might ruin it.”
He is angry that the film has been banned while BNP leader Nick Griffin was given a platform to express extremist views.
He says on his website that he received an email from the BBC telling him it would not broadcast the film due to “impartiality” guidelines. He wrote: “While Nick Griffin speaks freely on the BBC, Douglas Graham Scott is banned.”
Shot in Caithness, the film includes footage of protests against a new wind farm development in Thrumster, near Wick, including a sequence where local residents burn a large “wicker-man” style wind farm turbine to the ground.
Broadcast
9 November 2009
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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