May 2015

Community Energy Scotland 1Community Energy Scotland has teamed up with Community Energy England and Community Energy Wales write to Amber Rudd MP, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in the new Conservative government at Westminster. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/community-energy-scotland-combines-with-england-and-wales-counterparts-to-seek-meeting-with-uk-energy-minister-rudd/

David Ross Highland Correspondent Local residents are incensed that the Scottish Government has given the green light to a 20 turbine wind farm 10 miles south of Inverness, after it was unanimously refused by councillors. But now the Chief Reporter in Edinburgh has promised to consider a complaint from campaigners Read more

  By Joshua King The new Aberdeenshire Council administration-in-waiting was embroiled in a bitter row over a wind turbine plan last night. On the day the SNP struck a deal to seize control of the local authority, Nationalist councillors voted along party lines to back proposals for a 150ft device Read more

Queen’s Speech: Ministers say they will consult with the Scottish Government – which is strongly in favour of onshore wind – over pledge to end subsidies By Emily Gosden, Energy Editor English consumers could be forced to continue paying for new wind farms in Scotland, after the Government indicated its Read more

A planned £1.5 billion (€2.1 billion) offshore wind development by Dublin-based Mainstream Renewable Power will be challenged in a Scottish court this week over its environmental impact. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is fighting the Scottish government’s decision to license the 450-megawatt Neart na Gaoithe project Read more

Campaigners fighting a decade long battle against a wind farm on the edge of Dartmoor have pledged to broadcast the noise from the turbines live on the internet to deter investors. http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Fresh-bid-Den-Brook-wind-farm-battle/story-26576437-detail/story.html?afterReg=Y

MPs on Holyrood’s Energy Committee have received dozens of learned and details submissions to its ongoing investigation into the issue of security of supply of Scotland’s electricity. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/gas-oil-shale-nuclear-and-renewable-groups-lobby-holyrood-mps-over-security-of-scotlands-energy-supplies/

  A conservation group has urged politicians to act to protect the country’s scenic Highlands from further wind-farm developments. The Friends of the Great Glen group says the Great Glen and Loch Ness area is under threat from a “multitude” of planning applications which could see the creation of hundreds Read more