Rob Edwards Plans to protect endangered porpoises around the Scottish coast have been blocked by the Scottish Government to help clear the way for new offshore wind farms, according to internal government emails seen by the Sunday Herald. Senior wildlife advisors have privately accused the government’s Marine Scotland directorate of Read more
Work begins in Sandy, Bedfordshire on Monday 25 January, and the 100 metre tall wind turbine will generate around two million units of green energy every year, equivalent to over half of the electricity the RSPB uses across its 127 UK locations. http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/413148-rspb-and-ecotricity-to-build-new-wind-turbine-in-green-energy-partnership?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=News
The firm behind ambitious plans to create a floating windfarm off the north-east coast have promised it will deliver a jobs bonanza. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/peterhead/812934/statoil-reveal-its-hywind-scheme-will-employ-hundreds/
Wind farms should be built along motorways, Baroness Brown says Britain’s motorways are noisy and few people live there, she argues Lining them with wind farms would generate less opposition Proposal backed by Lib Dem’s former energy secretary Chris Huhne http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3413131/Line-motorways-wind-turbines-unattractive-no-one-lives-claims-Government-s-green-energy-adviser.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
SSE has sold a further 10per cent stake in the Beatrice offshore wind farm to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, its joint venture on the project. SSE retains a 40per cent stake in the £2billion project and is the lead operator, with CIP now owning 35per cent and Repsol, the Spanish energy Read more
A campaign group battling a proposed powerline is to publish its alternative plans to a project that is set to dominate the rural landscape for a century. SP Energy Network’s controversial new 109-mile-long line in Dumfries and Galloway will stretch from Auchencrosh, South Ayrshire, to Harker near Carlisle on 50m Read more
I WOULD like to provide some context to George Herraghty’s (January 21) , which states that on one recent night “wind’s contribution to the National Grid [was] precisely 0.15 per cent”. To take a less selective view, across 2014 – a year in which renewable energy was once again confirmed Read more
The refusal of fewer but higher wind turbines at the site of a controversial wind farm planned near Tomatin has been welcomed by objectors. Members of Highland Council’s south planning applications committee unanimously rejected the application by Nanclach Ltd on Tuesday, following a site visit the previous day, despite being Read more