Surrounding communities are set to receive £60,000 a year from the company that bought Barmoor Wind Farm project. http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local/all-news/community-fund-up-to-60-000pa-1-3377372
Eric Pickles is facing court action over his decision to block a wind farm in Somerset, as he announces an extension of his powers to veto controversial renewable energy schemes http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10767597/Minister-extends-powers-to-veto-wind-farms.html
Perth and Kinross-based Company, JSR Services are branching out into the Renewable Energy Sector acting as an agent for Bowler Energy, offering Wind Turbine and Solar PV solutions to businesses within the agricultural and commercial sectors. http://www.farminguk.com/news/JSR-Services-moves-into-renewable-energy-supported-by-Bowler-Energy_29842.html
PLANS for an 11-turbine windfarm on the Kintyre Peninsula have been given the go ahead after an independent reporter overturned the local council’s decision to turn down the project. The Freasdail scheme, near the hamlet of Whitehouse, had faced objections from the community council. Neil Martin of developer RES said: Read more
THE green lobby is like the fat boy in Dickens’s Pickwick Papers who declared: “I want to make your flesh creep.” Eager to terrify us by peddling their scare stories, the environmental zealots delight in warning of the apocalypse that awaits our planet if we do not submit to their Read more
On the announcement of the £461 million (EUR 556 million) investment, energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey said it was “proof of the strength of investment” in the industry. http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1290037/analysis-green-investment-bank-shores-faltering-uk-offshore-market
The United Nations (UN) has delivered its latest verdict on the measures necessary to save the world from global warming and the news is as grim as it is predictable and wearisomely familiar: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/04/14/Give-up-meat-coal-oil-economic-growth-and-national-sovereignty-orders-new-IPCC-climate-report?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
For the third year the Kelburn Windfarm Trust will receive around £50,000 from the RES company to provide community benefit in Largs, Cumbrae and Fairlie http://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/largs/articles/2014/04/14/494989-applications-wanted-for-kelburn-windfarm-cash/