Britain is sitting on 50 years’ worth of shale gas and can exploit it safely, but communities near fracking sites will endure significant disruption, according to President Obama’s Energy Secretary. http://www.thegwpf.org/uks-shale-gas-would-50-years/
Energy secretary calls on heads of state to back plan but says renewables target will not be binding http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/17/cut-carbon-emissions-ed-davey-tells-eu
The Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has today granted planning consent for a proposed wind farm near Invermoriston in the Highlands. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Wind-farm-to-provide-energy-for-50-900-homes-851.aspx
In the past two years the Blackhill Windfarm Community Fund has boosted groups in Duns and the surrounding area to the tune of nearly £148,000. http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local/all-news/blackhill-fund-awards-144-000-to-local-groups-1-3263727
Wind farms off the England and Wales coast should face legal restrictions on height, numbers, location and taxpayer subsidies, Parliament has heard. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/call-on-restrictions-for-wind-farms-9067967.html
THE UK’s leading wild land conservation charity, the John Muir Trust, has objected to plans for the 17-turbine Nathro Hill windfarm at the head of Glen Lethnot, near the Cairngorms National Park. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotland/john-muir-trust-opposes-wind-turbines-near-sacrosanct-cairngorms-national-park-1.178472
People who have publicly raised concerns over plans for wind farms uncomfortably close to their Wigtownshire homes have been targeted with hate mail. Dr Angela Armstrong and her husband Andrew Shiells, of Barrachan Home Farm, have received separate letters signed “Stranraer Wind Farm Enthusiasts” calling the couple “terrorists” and telling Read more…
A combined report into two separate collisions on the same day has lifted the lid on important aspects surrounding operation of the burgeoning fleet of offshore windfarm support vessels. The accidents involved passenger transfer vessels colliding with a floating target and a wind turbine off the UK east coast resulting Read more…