What fun it is watching again all those smug Volkswagen ads on YouTube, featuring men in mid-life crisis revving up their Golfs and Passats. German carmakers vie with French farmers for their sacred status in the European Union. That it has taken US authorities to sniff out the company’s cheating Read more
LIGHT aircraft pilots have warned it is “just a matter of time” before wind farms cause a “disastrous” accident in Scotland. By Paula Murray, EXCLUSIVE Small planes along with helicopters, gliders, microlights and other hobbyists make up the biggest user group of the UK airspace in terms of low level Read more
Exclusive by Tom Gordon WESTMINSTER has launched an unprecedented legal action against the SNP Government to scupper a renewable energy project – and potentially bankrupt a family business. Through the Advocate General for Scotland, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has raised a test case at the Court of Session to Read more
Christine Grahame MSP’s Private Bill to increase the size of the Pentland Hills Regional Park is to be applauded (“Farmers and estate managers oppose MSP’s bid to double the size of regional park over funding fears”, The Herald, September 30). Supporters of this Bill are under a major misapprehension if, Read more
Bank of England boss Mark Carney under fire for climate change comment He claimed that the environmental issue could trigger a financial crisis But critics say he is ‘politicising’ the job and operating outside his remit http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3256918/Is-eco-warrior-wife-speaking-Mark-Carney-feels-heat-saying-climate-change-cause-new-crash.html
Dundee should be a centre of excellence for renewables to create jobs in Tayside and Fife’s economy, the shadow Scottish Secretary has said. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/call-for-renewables-jobs-to-be-created-in-tayside-and-fife-1.902899
Controversial plans for a wind farm overlooked by the Carter Bar south of Jedburgh have been withdrawn – just a week before they were due to be debated. Around 200 objections had already been lodged with Scottish Borders Council (SBC) against the proposal for seven 126.5-metre high turbines at Cummings Read more
Piclo – the collaboration between energy startup Open Utility and green energy provider Good Energy – has teamed up with the Eden Project to pilot the UK’s first online market for renewable energy, allowing consumers and generators to buy and sell renewable energy directly. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/scots-wind-farms-join-in-launch-of-uks-first-online-peer-to-peer-renewable-energy-market/