Row over planned Caithness wind farm voucher offer/BBC News
Opponents to planned turbines have criticised a voucher scheme being offered to residents in parts of Caithness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-24258411
Too many wind farms and very poor roads/Berwick Advertiser
Too many wind farms, the need for better council services and the cost of living are the main concerns of Berwickshire residents http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local/all-news/too-many-wind-farms-and-very-poor-roads-1-3110890
Belford windfarm document draft described as ‘leaky sieve’/Berwick Advertiser
Belford Parish Council hopes to have a final draft of the Community Benefit Fund document, related to the application for the Belford Burn windfarm, soon. http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local/all-news/belford-windfarm-document-draft-described-as-leaky-sieve-1-3111094
Global warming believers are feeling the heat(James Delingpole)/The Telegraph
On Friday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers its latest verdict on the state of man-made global warming. Though the details are a secret, one thing is clear: the version of events you will see and hear in much of the media, especially from partis pris organisations like the Read more
Power company faces wind farm claims probe – The Herald
David Ross Highland Correspondent THE operators of Scotland’s largest wind farm are being reported to the advertising watchdog over allegations they misrepresented the contribution its turbines can make to national energy requirements. Opponents say the claims by ScottishPower Renewables, which runs Whitelee Wind Farm, near Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, are Read more
Ed Miliband’s energy crusade misses target, say experts – Financial Times
By Guy Chazan Ed Miliband’s call for an energy price freeze will resonate well with consumers increasingly fed-up with rising fuel bills. But the Labour leader may have picked the wrong target. Experts say the real drivers of mounting energy costs are factors outside the big six energy suppliers’ control Read more
Power company knew residents’ water supply was heavily polluted – The Times
Marcello Mega 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. The company denies causing the contamination, but admits not warning anyone that drinking water, Read more
Poland Pushes ‘Clean Coal’ At Next UN Climate Summit/The GWPF
Poland has been starkly criticised for organising an ‘International Coal and Climate Summit’ to run parallel with the COP19 UN climate change conference it is hosting in Warsaw this November. A Warsaw Communiqué issued jointly by Poland’s Ministry of the Economy and the World Coal Association (WCA) last week proposed Read more