U.S. and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to “panic” about environmental changes, leaked documents show. http://www.thegwpf.org/european-union-seeking-clarity-global-warming-slowdown/
A SURVEY carried out to ask how money from wind farm projects in the far north should be spent has found support for the creation of an area-wide fund. http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Call-to-spread-benefits-of-wind-farms-30082013.htm
Anti-windfarm campaigners confess they “dread to think” that the Cairngorms National Park’s 10th birthday present could be 31 turbines at Allt Duine by Kincraig. http://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/News/Windfarm-campaigners-fear-birthday-blues-for-Cairngorms-National-Park-29082013.htm
Campaigners across Scotland are celebrating an international ruling that could blow future UK onshore and offshore windfarm proposals into the dust. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/International-ruling-could-scupper-future-UK-windfarm-proposals-29082013.htm
The Scottish government has rejected plans for a Borders wind farm but allowed condition changes on a Dumfries and Galloway scheme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23879091
Campaigners against a community wind farm are said to be “relieved” after the controversial plans were dramatically abandoned last week. http://www.lennoxherald.co.uk/dunbartonshire-news/dunbartonshire-news/dumbarton-news/2013/08/30/114557-33777283/
Hen harriers are at the centre of a row over the methodology used by wind farm developers to estimate bird numbers. http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/local-headlines/row-over-wind-farm-harrier-study-1-3064280
THE artist behind the Piper Alpha Memorial is launching a new exhibition of works marking the development of a major offshore wind farm. Sue Jane Taylor, whose bronze memorial in memory of the victims of the North Sea tragedy was opened in 1991, has completed paintings, etchings, drawings and diaries Read more…