Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change to be published this week are at loggerheads over their explanation for why the earth’s surface temperature has stopped rising as rapidly as they previously predicted. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10325562/Row-over-IPCC-report-as-nations-try-to-hide-lack-of-climate-change.html
A windfarm development looks set to get the go-ahead despite 50 objections. http://www.dgstandard.co.uk/galloway-news/news/2013/09/19/windfarm-opposition-to-be-ignored-51311-33860371/
A DINGWALL-BASED civil engineering firm has landed a multi-million-pound contract to help build a 33-turbine wind farm south of Inverness. http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Dingwall-firm-lands-55million-wind-farm-contract-20092013.htm
Last night, Mr Paterson’s office angrily denied that allegation and insisted that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy had never been called in to keep the peace between the pair. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428672/Top-Whitehall-mandarin-called-series-blazing-rows-cabinet-members-wind-farms.html
ScottishPower has been accused of contaminating a private water supply to homes in the shadow of Europe’s biggest wind farm and of failing to tell the community that its drinking water could endanger health. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article3875305.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_09_20
Britain’s biggest energy giant British Gas is planning to hit millions of customers with price increases of £100 or up to 8 per cent, taking household energy bills to record levels just as temperatures begin to fall. http://www.thegwpf.org/greenest-government-driving-energy-bills-record-levels/
Germany’s top economic adviser has called for a radical rethink of the country’s energy policies, warning that the green dream is going badly wrong as costs spiral out of control. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10321173/Germany-industry-in-revolt-as-green-dream-causes-cost-spiral.html
The enormous machine components took up both lanes as they travelled along the Kingsway, struggling to navigate the roundabouts. http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/wind-turbine-convoy-lorries-on-move-through-dundee-1.132874