Wildlife groups want action after study implicates ‘duct’ propeller in corkscew deaths. Report by Rob Edwards New evidence that hundreds of seals have been slashed to death and beheaded by a type of propeller used in shipping and offshore industries has prompted a powerful plea for a worldwide ban. A Read more
Colin Donald Business Editor, Sunday Herald Scottish ministers should draw up a strategy to exploit a new €647 million European fund to promote energy connections, one of the new intake of European parliamentarians has said. Ian Duncan, the Conservative MEP for Scotland and a member of the Brussels parliament’s energy Read more
By Kieran Beattie Revised plans for a controversial windfarm scheme have been tabled with Moray Council. Edinburgh-based green energy firm Vento Ludens has reduced the number of turbines in the Brown Muir proposals from 19 to 12. The changes follow comments from concerned residents about the environmental impact of the Read more