EXECUTIVES at British Polythene Industries have warned high energy costs in the UK are putting the company off making major capital investments in its domestic market. http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/company-news/bpi-warns-energy-costs-are-deterring-uk-investment.1377683192
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has submitted plans for a £190m 50-turbine wind farm in the south west of Scotland to the Scottish government. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-23867100
Trade body unfazed by tribunal declaring UK’s renewable energy plans may be in breach of Aarhus Convention http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2291250/un-ruling-will-not-threaten-wind-farms-industry-says
A windfarm comprising 22 turbines of up to 125 metres in height could be proposed for the border of Angus and Perthshire. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/firm-reveals-early-plans-for-windfarm-in-glen-isla-1.124316
The Hadyard Hill wind farm near Dailly was closed down for a period earlier this month. http://www.carricktoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/hadyard-hill-has-to-constrain-power-output-1-3063086
A team of prominent German climatologists finds that global warming stopped fifteen years ago, in stark contrast to computer models and New York Times predictions of climate change calamities. Friends of Science say climate change computer models used in IPCC reports are not a reliable basis for climate change policies; Read more
The coalition is heading for a bitter new row over green energy as senior Tories seek to unpick carbon targets which stand in the way of Britain building more than 40 gas-fired power stations. http://www.thegwpf.org/uk-government-abandon-unilateral-co2-ttargets/
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: August 27th, 2013 Personally I don’t believe in banning words – but I do believe in intellectual and moral consistency. You’d never hear an organisation as eggshell-treadingly right-on as the BBC use pejorative terms for Jews or black people or homosexuals or sufferers of Read more