Colin Donald Business Editor, Sunday Herald Taylor Hopkinson, the Glasgow-based renewables recruitment specialist, has seen turnover soar by 124% to £1.65 million as employment in the UK renewables industry continues to expand. Taylor Hopkinson handles recruitment for wind farms both off and onshore The international company – which was founded Read more
by TOM PETERKIN MORE than 2,500 wind farm applications have been made to Scotland’s local authorities over the past 18 months, a survey of councils has revealed. Figures released under Freedom of Information legislation have disclosed that council staff have handled 2,508 applications in the past year and a half Read more
WHEN war breaks out between large energy companies and politicians it provokes the wistful reaction: if only they both could lose. On this occasion, such an outcome is not impossible. When Ed Miliband produced his conference-pleasing pledge to freeze energy prices for 20 months, the knee-jerk Tory reaction was to Read more
By Richard Watt Councils across Scotland are now dealing with seven windfarm applications a day. Local authorities in Courier Country are among those labouring under a huge number of applications. Fife and Aberdeenshire authorities have received the largest number of applications, 196 and 428, respectively. The Scottish Conservatives have called Read more
Plans for a single turbine in a remote Ross-shire community “struggling for survival” have whipped up a full-scale battle that has drawn almost 500 representations from across the country. A leading light behind the Coigach Community Development Company (CCDC) proposals for a community-owned turbine at Achvraie at Achiltibuie yesterday claimed Read more