Following her appointment as Energy Secretary, Amber Rudd will not want to wait long at the energy policy traffic lights. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/11610179/Government-needs-to-clarify-position-on-onshore-wind-says-energy-boss.html
Soon they will return. But when the small fishing boats of East Yorkshire’s Holderness Coast go back to Westermost Rough some time within the next few weeks, what they will find remains as murky as the waters they used to fish. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/17/have-wind-turbines-ruined-britain-lobsters
IT APPEARED to be a simple request from a millionaire property hunter: find a home for sale in the Highlands without a wind turbine, pylon or telecoms mast in sight. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article1557149.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2015_05_16
Campaigners have welcomed Angus Council’s official objection to a major glens windfarm plan http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/opposition-grows-to-macritch-hill-windfarm-1.875656
Highly controversial plans for a giant Perthshire windfarm which Outlander author Diana Gabaldon branded “insane” could be killed off after a formal objection from council chiefs. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/windfarm-bid-branded-insane-by-outlander-author-dealt-another-blow-1.875607
Colin Donald Business Editor The long-held dream of bringing the large-scale “cloud” data storage industry to rural Scotland has come a step closer to becoming reality after Intelligent Land Investments lodged a planning application for a 10,000 square metre centre in East Ayrshire. The proposed facility will be Read more