A WIND farm developer has won an appeal against Highland Council and has been granted permission to erect an 80-metre high temporary meteorological mast near Beauly. http://www.highland-news.co.uk/News/Controversial-Strathglas-met-mast-wins-appeal-but-no-costs-0511201.htm
Elizabeth Rigby and Pilita Clark Britain faces three years of emergency measures to make sure the country’s ageing electricity system can keep the lights on in winter, the energy secretary has revealed. Ed Davey has already approved plans to keep three power stations on standby this winter and pay businesses Read more
Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent INFINIS Energy, chaired by former SSE boss Ian Marchant, has said it will proceed with plans to build a big wind farm in Argyll after securing £52m development funding. The renewable energy specialist has arranged facilities with Royal Bank of Scotland and National Australia Bank Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent Highland councillors need to find up to £130 million to build a new route around two-and-a-half miles of road that have been prone to rockfalls for the past 40 years. The A890 Stromeferry bypass, which runs along the south side of Loch Carron, is a Highland Read more
East Lothian Council has joined Scottish Borders Council in opposing a 27 turbine extension to Aikengall wind farm which straddles the border between the two authorities. Dunbar councillor Michael Veitch said after last week’s council meeting: “It is a matter of enormous regret that an application for yet another large Read more