ENERGY giant SSE is being forced to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to fix the “Beauly Buzz”. The company was issued with a noise abatement notice in February to tackle a low-frequency humming sound from the Wester Balblair sub-station after new equipment was installed as part of the upgrade Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent The controversial owner of the 26,800-acre Pairc Estate on Lewis has welcomed what appears to be the final chapter in the 11-year saga of the proposed community buyout of his land. It had looked as though it would be Scotland’s first hostile community buyout with Barry Read more
By Laura Paterson BUCKIE is getting ready to cash in on a multibillion-pound Moray Firth green energy project. The construction of more than 180 turbines up to 650ft tall will form the UK’s second-largest windfarm. The first minister was in Nigg yesterday to witness the signing of a memorandum of Read more
Wind farm spread could harm tourism A new survey from Survation has revealed that half the population of the Highlands fear that the spread of large scale wind farm across wild land could damage tourism in the region. The poll, conducted for the John Muir Trust, asked over 500 residents Read more