Only one in four British people is prepared to pay more for energy in order to reduce climate change, according to a ComRes poll for The Independent on Sunday. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/global-warming-only-one-in-four-britons-prepared-to-pay-more-for-energy-bills-to-help-reduce-climate-a6753196.html
The Review aims to achieve, a quicker, more accessible and efficient planning process in order to build investor and community confidence in the system. The review will focus on 6 key issues. Development planning; Housing delivery; Planning for infrastructure; Further improvements to development management; Leadership, resourcing and skills; and Community Read more
Many of the new green power stations that were expected to spring up over the next decade will no longer be built, after subsidies for onshore wind and solar energy were slashed, campaigners have warned. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/renewable-energy-many-green-power-plants-planned-for-uk-will-not-be-built-a6750586.html
The Scottish Government’s Chief Planner has written a letter, addressed to the local authority heads of planning in Scotland, but no doubt intended for a much wider audience. His main points are: the Scottish Government has not changed its planning policy on renewable energy developments; there is not a cap Read more
Following the announcement that the UK Government will scrap its £1 billion commercialisation programme for developing carbon capture, the SNP have described the decision as an “enormous disappointment”. Stewart Stevenson, MSP – whose Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency includes Peterhead – also raised the ‘disgraceful’ decision to axe the Read more
The Dalquhandy former open cast coal mine 3R Energy, a Scottish wind and biomass developer, has been granted planning permission for an integrated 45MW renewable energy project on a former opencast coal site in South Lanarkshire – which will create up to 15 new jobs. The development, near Lanark town, Read more
The Government should continue on the lowest-cost path towards the legal requirement to reduce UK emissions by at least 80% in 2050 on 1990 levels. And it should also commit to an emissions reduction of 57% by 2028-2032, the Committee on Climate Change recommends in its fifth ‘carbon budget’. Read more
Hywind offshore floating wind turbine parc. Statoil is set to develop a pilot park of five floating 6MW turbines which is to be located at Buchan Deep, approximately 25km off the coast of Peterhead with a generating capacity of 135GWh of electricity each year. The pilot park will cover around Read more