Reports that the Conservatives may pledge to ‘eradicate’ wind turbines around the UK could mean a rise in energy bills and power shortages, the SNP has said. http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-economy/9003-tory-threat-to-eradicate-wind-farms-would-hit-consumers-in-the-pocket
The chairman of the Tay Estuary Forum says planned wind farms for the area are a “great opportunity.” http://news.stv.tv/tayside/270562-academic-rob-duck-says-planned-tay-wind-farms-are-great-opportunity/
by ILONA AMOS CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans to erect turbines on a landmark hillside in the North-East of Scotland have accused developers of using the planning system in an “undemocratic” way to win permission for larger wind farms. Members of Save Brown Muir claim a scaled-back proposal for a wind farm Read more
U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration is concerned that a crucial United Nations report on climate science may be too harsh in assessing the cost of fighting global warming. Such a finding may lower the incentive for the world to reduce fossil fuel pollution and feed the arguments of those skeptical Read more
Flatulent cattle, we know, make global warming worse. Their belching and farting– and that of sheep and other ruminants – produces up to a quarter of the world’s emissions of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas, more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. But now another animal Read more
The Conservative party is planning to pledge in its manifesto for next year’s general election that it will introduce a moratorium on future onshore windfarms from 2020 on the grounds that they have now become “self-defeating”. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/04/conservatives-promise-ban-new-onshore-windfarms
Not so long ago, energy policy was a quiet, frankly boring, backwater in the Whitehall jungle, neglected despite its importance. Now, perhaps appropriately, it generates some of the most heated exchanges of all. And so it was again this week when a row over wind power blew apart the Coalition Read more
A GROUP has been set up to evaluate any planning applications for wind turbines in Helensburgh and Lomond. http://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/helensburghandlomond/articles/2014/04/04/493926-wind-turbines-scrutinised/