One of the BBC’s most spectacular recent success stories is the weekly wildlife and farming programme, Countryfile. 7 million watch it. But CHRISTOPHER BOOKER says the BBC’s flagship show ignores rural Britain’s real problems http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2966166/Countryfile
A NEWSPAPER poll is being proposed to discover the public’s views on a windfarm development as community leaders struggle to come up with a decision on the best way forward. http://www.peeblesshirenews.com/news/peebles/articles/2015/02/25/525218-windfarm-continues-to-generate-debate/
WIGTOWN conservationists berate the renewable energy firm Ecotricity for its “disrespectful” application to erect a wind farm before the result of their appeal to erect a meteorological mast is decided (Wind farm plan is ‘disrespectful’”, The Herald, February 23). Ecotricity’s response is to say that erecting such a Read more
If ever there’s a competition for the most spectacularly pointless and wasteful project in engineering history, you’d be hard pressed to find a more promising candidate than the one announced this week, with great fanfare, by Energy Secretary Ed Davey. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11425563/The-great-wind-farm-farce.html
By Richard Watt A wildlife conservation charity has criticised Scottish Water over plans to build a windfarm in the Angus Glens. Developer Eneco UK last month submitted plans for an 18-turbine windfarm to the Scottish Government. The proposed 59MW Macritch Hill development is intended for Scottish Water land Read more
Cabling associated with multi-million-pound offshore windfarms will likely be rerouted to protect Angus farmland. The infrastructure is associated with the Seagreen Alpha and Bravo developments planned east of Angus, which were among four offshore windfarms granted Scottish government consent last October. The Forth and Tay region schemes will Read more