A CONTROVERSIAL property tycoon and Tory donor is set to rake in millions from massive onshore wind farms planned in one of Scotland's most fragile communities.
London-based financier Dr Christopher Moran - who owns the 48,000-acre Cabrach Estate in Moray has been described as a "wind farm vulture".
The multimillionaire, who has launched his own renewables firm, has been embroiled in previous scandals around insider trading and prostitution in a block of flats his firm owned.
In the Cabrach - which includes Moran's sprawling estate local groups said the scale of wind farm construction planned will be unprecedented and turn it into "the UK's largest onshore wind park".
They fear the tiny, remote community is already close to "saturation point" with the size of proposed developments putting wildlife at risk.
A first wave of construction has already led to 77 turbines being built across two operating wind farms, Dorenell and Clashindarroch.
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