Four of the country’s largest energy companies have piled pressure on Alex Salmond to abandon planning changes that would make it harder for them to build wind farms on wild land. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10677208/Energy-giants-oppose-wind-farm-wild-land-ban.html
Scotland’s first ever strategy for the historic environment has been published. The strategy sets out, for the first time, a vision of how our historic environment can be understood, valued, cared for and enjoyed. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Strategy-paves-way-for-Historic-Environment-a03.aspx
Kate Devlin UK Political Correspondent A LEADING Ukip member has stood down as his party’s economic spokesman after he was branded a hypocrite for striking wind-farm deals on his Scottish estates. Professor Tim Congdon agreed the contracts with SSE in Argyll and E.On Renewables in Caithness, the Sunday Herald revealed Read more