Denmark’s climate and energy minister warns that the country’s green energy transition has become too expensive and too unpopular. http://www.thegwpf.com/denmarks-liberal-government-to-roll-back-renewable-energy-policy/
Former Deputy First Minister Lord Stephen called for an urgent rethink of UK government energy policy at the 7th annual Scottish Highland Renewable Energy Conference (SHREC) yesterday. Speaking at the event held in Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness, organised by Harper Macleod, the Scotland spokesperson for the Libdems in the House of Read more
The microclimates created by the action of wind farms is unlikely to affect the ability of peatland to capture carbon, scientists consider. http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_456892_en.html
By Maureen Ferrier Cameron Community Council is to support objectors to the latest move by St Andrews University to develop a wind farm at Kenly. The university has applied to Fife Council for permission to connect the wind farm to the grid, but the local community council has described the Read more
‘Subsidy Sam’ was written by Lyndsey Ward to counter the shameless pro-wind propaganda allowed in schools http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2016/4/22/in-the-news-today-josh-370.html
St Andrews University wants to lay the power line between the wind farm it hopes to build at Kenly and its campus at North Haugh. Locals say they will fight Kenly wind farm power line proposal
Ministers have escalated a fierce row with the House of Lords over plans to scrap subsidies for new onshore wind farms as Tory MPs warned peers they are on “thin ice”. The upper chamber successfully deleted proposals from the Energy Bill last year which would scrap the subsidies a year Read more
By Craig Borland The Mount Stuart Trust has denied accusations that it’s trying to block plans for a community-owned renewable energy project on the island. The Trust’s lawyers have written to the owner of the site at Auchintirrie farm where Bute Community Power has planning permission to build two wind Read more