THE efforts made by the SNP Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing, to deflect responsibility for the closure of Longannet Power Station and for the withdrawal of the plan to build a gas-fired power station at Cockenzie to the door of the Prime Minister, fail to address the fundamental and now problematic Read more
by Sean Rooney Barrhead’s local authority must say “no more” to wind turbines according to councillors. Planning officers were put on the spot by councillors at a meeting of East Renfrewshire Council’s planning application committee on Wednesday but despite their opposition to any more building of wind turbines, councillors were Read more
A postcode in Glasgow is the top mainland spot for small-scale renewables in Scotland, new figures have revealed. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/85362/commonwealth-legacy-lives-on-as-glasgow-postcode-becomes-renewables-hotspot/
Around 42,000 solar schemes (equivalent to around 660,000 250W solar panels), 2,557 small wind projects, 204 hydro-electric schemes and three anaerobic digesters, which turn waste into gas, are powering Scotland’s homes, businesses and community buildings – according to latest figures produced by Scottish Renewables and Scotland’s Rural College. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/new-survey-reveals-inverurie-as-solar-power-capital-of-scotland-as-small-renewable-energy-projects-face-prospect-of-cut-in-uk-subsidies/
Tens of thousands of solar energy schemes and small wind projects are powering Scotland’s homes and businesses, according to new data. http://news.stv.tv/scotland/1326895-uk-government-plans-could-make-renewable-energy-projects-unviable/
IT IS one thing for a massive, coal-burning power station to reach the end of its days; it is another for plans for a new, cleaner, gas-fired station to be scrapped at the same time and citing identical reasons, the pernicious and illogical transmission regime of the UK’s national Read more
This horrible, upsetting picture shows a white stork whose beak was chopped off by a wind turbine in Germany. It subsequently had to be “euthanised” by a vet. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/17/why-stefan-the-stork-died-in-vain-wind-turbines/
The Board of Hadyard Hill Community Benefit Fund has appointed Foundation Scotland to administer funds it receives from the SSE Hadyard Hill windfarm. http://www.carricktoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/hadyard-hill-fund-changes-administrator-1-3860963