Windfarm owners say the head of Tony Abbott’s renewable energy review recently told them they were foolish to “build a whole business model on government largesse”, raising fears he will recommend a severe winding back of the renewable energy target. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/fears-for-renewables-after-energy-target-described-as-government-largesse
A £300 million project which will route an underground power line through the heart of Banffshire to connect an extensive offshore wind farm to the National Grid is expected to go to the planning stage this month. http://www.banffshire-journal.co.uk/News/Offshore-cable-poised-to-power-through-Shire-16062014.htm
The Ministry of Defence had a previously planned project for a site near Longtown stopped because the scheme would affect its work for the United Nations. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.1142813
David Ross Highland Correspondent Scotland’s three islands councils can look forward to receiving all the Crown Estate’s income from the seabed round their shores, if there is a Yes vote in the independence referendum. News that Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles stand to get 100 per cent of the rent Read more