I disagree with William Forbes of Strathnairn, that windfarms trash our landscape (Topic of the week: The value of wilderness, Letters, June 21). My wife and I live in the country and our almost next door neighbour is Whitelees wind farm. Apart from the fact that these turbines are churning Read more
Fri, 26/06/2015 – 13:13 Energy experts have condemned the UK government for their decision to cut subsidies for onshore wind energy, which will leave Scotland the “worst affected”. Professor Peter Strachan of Robert Gordon University and Aberdeen University’s Dr David Toke warned of the consequences for Scotland’s onshore wind industry Read more
By Stuart Gillespie People power has won the day on a controversial windfarm project … for now. Objectors protested outside the council offices in Dumfries yesterday to make clear their opposition to plans for eight turbines at Mochrum Fell in the Glenkens. And rally organiser Trevor Procter reckoned the demonstration Read more
By David Kerr Highland councillors have rejected plans for a wind speed mast in the hills above Loch Ness. Members of the authority’s south planning committee voted against the 164ft mast, which was set to be built on Aberarder Estate within the Monadhliath mountain range south of Inverness. Council leader Read more
Borders Network of Conservation Groups have welcomed plans to bring to a close the current wind turbine subsidy system. The UK Government announced last week that the existing subsidy system will close earlier than expected in April 2016, with a grace period for projects already with planning permission, and local Read more
When the SNP were in opposition in Scotland in 2007, their present Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing claimed: “The SNP believes that many other forms of renewable energy are the future, not unconstrained wind farms. Wind farms have … a very heavy environmental footprint not only blotting the landscape in places Read more
The future of the Green Investment Bank must be guaranteed, despite plans by the UK Government to privatise it, according to the Deputy First Minister. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Guarantees-sought-over-green-investment-1a91.aspx
Onshore wind farms could be built without any need for Government subsidies “in the near future”, energy minister Andrea Leadsom has said. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/80807/andrea-leadsom-says-wind-farms-will-not-need-subsidy/