As you may already know I have just started in my new role of coordinating the Community Peer Support Network and I’m now getting to know more of the activists and supporters out there. It has been a bit of a ‘in at a deep end’ for me and busy Read more
Friends of Science Society’s new report “Why Renewable Energy Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels by 2050” demonstrates that moving to a ‘low-carbon’ society is nigh impossible without the vast use of fossil fuels, bringing into question the climate change risk claims of the Grantham “Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures.” New Read more
Regular readers may be aware that I am not a fan of wind farms. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/11/great-british-wind-farm-scandal/
The interview in last week’s Sunday Telegraph with Hugh McNeal, the new head of RenewableUK, was remarkable in more ways than one. Certainly readers may have been surprised to know how easily he could switch from being a senior official at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to Read more
“To become law, the legislation must now be signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda and officially published.” http://en.friends-against-wind.org/news/polish-parliament-adopts-10h-setback
A nine-turbine wind farm project that had been rejected by Scottish Borders Council has been approved following an appeal. http://www.hawick-news.co.uk/news/local-headlines/wind-farm-approved-after-appeal-1-4151115
Brian Donnelly, Senior News Reporter THE world’s first offshore windfarm that can store generated energy equal to the capacity of 2 million iPhones is set to be installed off the coast of Scotland. Dubbed ‘Batwind’, the project will see five floating turbines positioned in waters north of Aberdeen acting as Read more
by Blair Dingwall The Scottish Government has reversed a local authority decision to reject plans for a 260ft mast in a scenic Aberdeenshire locale. The proposals by Coriolis Energy for an anemometer mast on the Glendye Estate, near Strachan, were thrown out by Aberdeenshire Council’s Marr area committee last year. Read more