February 15, 2014

Not heard of Ed Davey? You are forgiven. This fellow may be a Rt Hon, a multiple-red-box wallah, a fellow with a grand private office, spin doctors and attendant lackeys. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559924/Ed-Davey-From-Quentin-Letts-withering-portrait-Lib-Dem-Minister-week-called-climate-sceptics-diabolical.html

Regulators aren’t keeping up with rapid growth of industry as boat operators ‘ignore safety rules and risk lives of workers’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/14/offshore-windfarms-renewable-energy

(UPDATED) There are more than 1000 sites that have or are allowed to have wind turbines. Here’s a few resources to help you find them http://www.tgomagazine.co.uk/viewpoint/is-there-a-wind-farm-planned-near-you

Landowner David Mack applied for permission to erect the turbine at his farm at Cromer Ridge, one of the highest points in Norfolk North Norfolk District Council rejected the plans But a planning inspector overturned the council’s decision But a High Court judge said the inspector failed to give enough Read more

MOUNTAINEERING leaders have objected to a wind farm proposed for south-west Scotland. The Mountaineering Council of Scotland, which has 11,800 members, said E.ON’s project would damage the mountain landscape near the planned site close to Carsphairn, Dumfries and Galloway. Plans have been lodged for 19 of the 425ft turbines. It Read more

Greig Cameron Deputy Business Editor AS someone who has been an adviser to three US presidents, an executive at Google and is now a professor at an elite university, Dan Reicher comes with enough credentials to impress even those used to moving in the most rarefied of circles. FULL OF Read more

Jody Harrison Reporter DONALD Trump has claimed he is proud to have “saved the magnificent” Balmedie Dunes” reserve – despite announcing he is to sell off part of his north-eastern estate after withdrawing plans to build another golf course in Scotland. The US tycoon further criticised offshore wind farms, which Read more