A move to allow council managers to privately decide on plans for seven more wind turbines near Dunbar has been branded “wholly inappropriate”. A report was due to be debated by councillors at a meeting of East Lothian Council’s cabinet in Haddington on Tuesday but was withdrawn from the agenda. Read more
By Neil Macphail Children with a good sense of humour helped launch a north windfarm yesterday. The 23-turbine scheme at Lochluichart near Garve, Ross-shire, was named The Spinny Turners by children of Strathgarve Primary. The project, the largest onshore for Dutch renewable energy firm Eneco, will also feature a visitor Read more
A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death of a man who was killed when he fell 100ft down the shaft of a wind turbine. Basilio Brazao, a 19-year-old Brazilian construction worker, was working inside the turbine at the Earlsburn wind farm near Fintry, Stirlingshire on May Read more
By James Williamson Scotland’s wind power industry is to launch a good-practice guide designed to reduce the number of birds killed or displaced by turbines. A conference in Perth will today hear how more than £50,000 has already been spent on a series of studies by the Scottish Windfarm Bird Read more