THE international community must match Scotland??s world-leading climate change ambitions to tackle global warming, the Environment Minister has said. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/world-must-match-scotland-on-climate-targets-minister-says.114144742
An experiment in liberalising power markets has been underway in the UK since the 1980s and three phases can be identified. The first ran from around 1989 to 1999, beginning with the privatisation of the generating industry and grid and ending by giving customers the freedom to shop http://www.scottishenergynews.com/to-cut-carbon-emissions-and-keep-the-lights-on-it-has-got-to-be-nuclear-power/
Councillors have rejected plans for a six-turbine extension to a wind farm in the Scottish Borders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-30349245
By Jane Candlish Objectors who successfully fought off plans for wind turbines beside a iconic north peak, have a mountain to climb agtain. PI Renewables has lodged an appeal asking the Scottish Government to approve the Carn Gorm windfarm, which would involve 14 turbines, each 410ft high, on the lower Read more
It seems almost perverse that those presently holding the power to decide future energy provision in Scotland are pursuing a renewables course that will end in disaster. Even in Germany, where there was a similar blindness to reality to that now prevailing in Scotland, the penny seems to have dropped. Read more