The company bidding to build a 13-turbine wind farm at Tressady near Rogart are appealing against the Highland Council’s decision to refuse planning permission. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Developers-to-appeal-over-Tressady-Wind-Farm-refusal-22042014.htm
North east Fife councillors deferred decisions on two separate wind turbine proposals to allow for site visits http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/decisions-on-north-east-fife-wind-turbines-plans-deferred-1.329520
Miliband previously branded opposing wind farms ‘socially unacceptable’ Next Labour manifesto will contain ‘commitments’ on green energy While Labour are arguing to more onshore wind farms, Conservatives pledge to them to offshore locations by 2020 Labour’s position is another area of agreement with the Liberal Democrats By Tamara Cohen Ed Read more
TODAY’S issue of your newspaper carries two adjacent items expressing concerns about Scotland’s countryside and town centres (“We need to invest and innovate if we want to revive our city centres”, Agenda, The Herald, April 21) and David Bridge’s letter on the proposed Kintyre wind farm. Both problems are the Read more
By Laura Paterson More questions have been raised about a possible link between wind energy and the major power cut which blacked out more than 200,000 properties across the north last week. The widespread power outage which affected homes from Fort William to Orkney and Moray to the Western Isles Read more
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