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Farmers could earn more than £50,000 a year renting out their land as sites for large-scale solar-power farms. http://www.energyvoice.com/2013/11/developer-launches-hunt-scottish-large-scale-solar-sites/
Like Anthony Watts, I have only recently discovered the best, funniest and truest ever thing written about Climategate: an hilarious essay, published in 2009, by author Michael Kelly. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100247973/why-climate-change-is-still-far-too-important-to-be-left-to-scientists/
A free home insulation scheme for poorer households will be kept but implemented more slowly as part of a package of measures to cut fuel bills, the BBC has learned. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25132843
A controversial £70m wind farm has been given planning permission to be built on Lewis. Councillors breached their own policy and went against recommendations to refuse the turbines on crofters’ grazing ten miles outside Stornoway. Each turbine in the 42MW development at Druim Leathann will be 410ft tall. Council officials Read more…
The first phase of an offshore development which would see 19 kilometres of underground cables being installed in Carnoustie has been given the green light. Seagreen Wind Energy Ltd., (Seagreen) has today (Tuesday) received consent from Angus Council for the onshore infrastructure required for Phase 1 of its Firth of Read more…
Energy company 2020 Renewables Ltd have today been successful in securing consent for a 42MW wind farm from Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. Planning permission has been granted for the 14 turbine Druim Leathann Windfarm to the west of Tolsta on the Isle of Lewis. When constructed the development will generate Read more…