The UN has expressed concern that only a handful of countries have ratified an extension to the Kyoto Protocol, more than 18 months after they agreed to do so. Kyoto, the world’s only legally binding global emissions treaty, ran out at the end of 2012. At climate talks in Doha, Read more
PLANNING officials have refused permission for two wind turbines in the hills between Greenock and Loch Thom. http://www.inverclydenow.com/photostream/12778-wind-turbines-in-regional-park-rejected
Businesses will be offered compensation to shut down for four hours a day National Grid had planned to introduce this measure in winter of 2015 Fires and other setbacks put some of UK’s biggest generators out of service Two nuclear power plants are offline and unlikely to be running Read more
Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent LITHGOWS returned to the black in 2013 when the company made good progress in the renewable energy sector but suffered fallout from the demise of the Buckie Shipyard. Accounts for the family-owned group filed at Companies House show Lithgows made £46,000 pre-tax profit in the Read more