ENOUGH is enough is the strong message being sent this week by residents of a scenic stretch of Clydesdale countryside, claiming that they have an ‘ever-growing windfarm’ on their doorsteps. http://www.carlukegazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/objections-against-muirhall-windfarm-expansion-1-3394363
A RAFT of community projects are to benefit from a development fund linked to onshore windfarms. A new visitor centre in the Great Glen and an essential upgrade to an off-grid community hydro electric scheme in Knoydart are among ventures that will share £1 million from SSE’s new Highland Sustainable Read more
MOST domestic customers will be happy with the sentiments in Jenny Hogan’s letter regarding the upgrading of power lines (Letters, May 5), but they will not be sure who pays. There is SSE Power Distribution and SSE Transmission Ltd in the north and Ms Hogan also mentions National Grid. It Read more
Gasp! The green movement may be getting smarter. Slowly, if not surely, more and more greens seem to be getting on board with nuclear energy. http://www.thegwpf.org/environmentalists-warm-up-to-nuclear-energy/
Climate change scientists are spreading panic and disrupting our conception of nature. http://iainews.iai.tv/articles/a-new-god-of-chaos-auid-363
BRUCE McIntosh (“Wind power may be responsible for £200m of constraint payments”, Letters, May 1) is wrong to suggest that payments to electricity generators to switch off are due to increases and decreases in wind power output. This is evidenced by the fact that gas, coal and hydro power generators Read more
Britain will be told to get fracking faster for shale gas when the House of Lords economy committee publishes its report this week http://www.telegraph.co.uk/financialservices/utilities/Business-energy/10806607/Fracking-EU-red-tape-threat-to-energy-boom.html
The true cost of the massive expansion of wind farms in England can today be revealed by a special Sunday Post investigation. http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/uk/special-report-the-true-cost-of-our-wind-farms-1.350021