The Scottish Government’s Geothermal Energy Challenge Fund has awarded almost quarter of a million pounds to five feasibility projects to investigate how the thermal energy in the ground can be used to heat homes and businesses. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/green-light-for-scotlands-first-five-geothermal-feasibility-projects/
Mark Latham Deputy Business Editor When it was reported two weeks ago that the UK Government would fulfil its manifesto promise to curtail subsidies for onshore wind farms by bringing forward the closure of a generous subsidy scheme, green energy firms threatened to sue and the Scottish Read more
Rob Edwards THE Duke of Buccleuch lobbied the Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing, and government officials behind closed doors to fast-track a £1 billion plan for one of Scotland’s biggest-ever wind farms, according to internal documents obtained by the Sunday Herald. In a “private and confidential” presentation last November, Buccleuch’s chief Read more
THE owners of Britain’s largest onshore wind farm will be accused this week of contaminating private water supplies to dozens of homes in west Scotland. A public inquiry to consider five new turbines at Scottish Power’s Whitelee wind farm will be shown evidence that tests of drinking water taken after Read more
Views which inspired a series of Turner watercolours are under threat Plan by dairy farming brothers for two ‘monstrous’ 160ft tall wind turbines Would be on countryside neighbouring Harewood House in West Yorkshire They claim if plans blocked they face financial ruin, blaming supermarkets http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3123179/A-monstrous-blot-Turner-s-landscape-Dairy-farmers-provoke-fury-wind-turbine-plan-say-forced-supermarkets-milk-price-squeeze.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service has added its voice to those objecting to Bute Community Power’s plans for two wind turbines on the island. http://www.buteman.co.uk/news/community-news/archaeologists-object-to-bute-turbine-plans-1-3800692
More wood being burnt from British woods than since industrial revolution Government said annual fuel harvest should reach two million tons by 2020 Bickerton Hill in Cheshire has seen a large decrease in the number of trees http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3122851/Where-woods-gone-smoke-new-trendy-green-wood-burning-stoves-boilers-funded-tax-millions-fuelled-birches-oaks-leaving-swathes-Britain-barren.html
Subsidies for new wind farms should be scrapped as rural parts of the country have “had enough” of developments, the Scottish Conservatives have said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33121557