The world’s climate change experts are now saying that strong growth doesn’t hurt the environment, it protects it http://www.thegwpf.org/matt-ridley-the-richer-we-get-the-greener-well-become/
Schoolchildren would enjoy “hands-on lessons” about rural life and renewable energy if a classroom on the site of a controversial Perthshire windfarm was approved, it was claimed yesterday. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/plans-for-perthshire-windfarm-classroom-backed-1.326966
I WAS interested to read in your article on the approval for an 11-turbine wind farm on the Kintyre peninsula (“Green light for Kintyre wind farm”, The Herald, April 16) that the developer, RES (a multi-national with no local links), says that the scheme is within a “proposed area of Read more
A public meeting organised by Hobkirk Community Council has voted ananimously against a nearby wind farm application. Around 40 people turned out for the meeting in the village’s Laidlaw Hall last week to voice their concerns over plans for the 15-turbine evelopment at Birneyknowe and officially record their thoughts. Although Read more
By Ron Harris Scotland may have less than 10 per cent of the UK population but it does have more than 50 per cent of the UK’s onshore wind turbines, it has been revealed. And news that there are currently 2315 operating turbines north of the border has angered Dumfriesshire, Read more