“Scotland rules the waves,” Alex Salmond declared in 2011, as the Scottish government unveiled a high-tech electricity generating device built by one of the nation’s wave energy companies. Three years later, the country’s hopes of leading the world in tapping the power of the sea is under serious threat. FirstFT Read more
Former US President George W Bush may be the most unlikely name yet enlisted in the fight against a major windfarm development on the Angus/Perthshire border. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/george-w-bush-may-help-fight-against-major-windfarm-development-in-tayside-1.755826
RSPB Scotland is urging people in Dumfries and Galloway to have their say on plans for a wind farm on moorland 4km (2.49 miles) north of Sanquhar. The plan for the Spango (Mid Ring) wind farm proposes erecting 14 turbines, each of them 145m (475ft) tall. But the charity said Read more