Windfarm operators have been paid a record-breaking £3.1million – for turning off their turbines for a single day. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14682667.Windfarm_operators_paid___3_1m_to_switch_off_turbines_for_one_day/?ref=rl&lp=1
Members of Wigtown Community Council heard at their monthly meeting that Community Windpower have withdrawn an application to erected seven turbines at Auchleand Farm. The renewable energy company lodged the application with the council in 2013 for seven 130 metre turbines, a 80 metre metrological mast and a substation. Community Read more
By Bill Gibb • New Bank of Scotland research has found that the price of homes close to Scottish Premiership grounds have risen by nearly a third in the past decade, as opposed to a 20% increase generally. The biggest jumps have been around the grounds of Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Read more
Wind power has few friends on the political Right. No other industry elicits such protest from the conservative press, Tory backbenchers, and free market economists. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/08/14/britains-vast-national-gamble-on-wind-power-may-yet-pay-off/