AN EASTER Ross port’s role in the development of one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms was extended this week with the arrival of a heavy duty visitor. http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Easter-Ross-port-secures-heavy-duty-offshore-wind-farm-work-10072014.htm
BOSSES at Knockhill Racing Circuit plan to use green energy to power the venue after proposals for two wind turbines were submitted to Fife Council. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/dunfermline/articles/2014/07/10/503578-wind-turbines-planned-for-knockhill-racing-circuit/
Magnus Gardham Political Editor AN INDEPENDENT Scotland could establish a single energy market with the rest of the UK, provided there was “goodwill and co-operation” between the two countries, according to a report commissioned by the Scottish Government out today. The Government’s independ-ent Expert Commission on Energy Regulation said comb-ined Read more
Catherine MacLeod Columnist We need to keep on the lights, heat our homes, and fuel our factories. That can be taken as a given. What cannot be taken for granted is a constant supply of energy, in either Scotland or the UK, without radical intervention, matched by major injections of Read more
By Scott McCulloch The Scottish Government has approved plans for a 22-turbine wind farm development in West Lothian. The Harburnhead development, near West Calder, is expected will support up to 80 jobs during construction, and when complete will have a generating capacity of up to 66 megawatts of electricity – Read more
Plans to build a major wind farm in Shetland have been given the go-ahead by the courts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-28232269
By Paul Cargill A windfarm developer has again been accused of handing out “bribes” to hush up potential critics of its plans in Perthshire. Banks Renewables, the company behind a bid to build the biggest turbines the Big County has ever seen on the Bandirran Estate near Balbeggie, recently gave Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent MOUNTAINEERING leaders are objecting to plans to erect a wind farm near Rannoch Moor, fearing it could cause damage to a landscape that has a “special place in people’s hearts”. The Mountaineering Council of Scotland claimed the Talladh-a-Bheithe project would involve 24 turbines 125 metres tall, Read more