Tory Holyrood MPs – with Labour and LibDem support – have tabled a motion for debate in parliament tomorrow which is aimed at putting Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing on the spot in the environmental debate over controversially siting wind parcs in ‘sensitive’ rural areas and/or in Scotland’s ‘wild lands’. Read more
Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent A LONDON-BASED renewable energy investor is eyeing wind farms in Scotland and said the no vote in the independence referendum will make it easier to raise money to buy assets in the sector. Greencoat UK Wind said it is looking at a number of wind Read more
AN SNP MSP has defied his government’s planning policy by backing plans for a 22-turbine wind farm project on wild land in northern Scotland. Rob Gibson, who is convener of the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee, claims the Creag Riabhach scheme at Altnaharra in Sutherland would reap economic Read more
A public exhibition is to be held next week into a proposed wind farm in the Scottish Borders. West Coast Energy want to build 10 turbines at Weetroot near Westruther in Berwickshire. The developers will outline plans for a community benefit fund at the exhibition which is being held at Read more
The SNP Government have been accused of delaying controversial reports to spare them from embarrassment in the lead up to the referendum. http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/scotland/independence-referendum/snp-stockpiled-bad-news-in-referendum-run-up-1.599207
Apart from the Middle East, there can have been few more depressing places to be in the world last Tuesday than the UN General Assembly in New York, where an endless queue of world leaders, including Barack Obama and David Cameron, treated an increasingly soporific audience to leaden little appeals Read more
More onshore wind turbines will be built than are needed under the Government’s own green energy targets http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/11125908/Thousand-more-wind-farms-than-UK-needs.html
By David Kerr Plans for a 15-turbine windfarm in Sutherland have been rejected by the Scottish Government. Edinburgh-based developer Vento Ludens Ltd had lodged proposals for 396ft masts at Balnacoil Lodge, north-west of Brora. But yesterday government reporter Robert Maslin rejected the scheme, saying that the turbines would have a Read more