Please consider completing this survey to support SAS’s aspirations on planning reform. DEADLINE: 23 December This survey/consultation is part of theScottish Government’s preparation for its upcoming Planning Bill (2017), which it considers Community Engagement to be an important part of. We all know about community engagement with wind farm developers Read more…
Please find attached the Agenda for the next meeting on 19 December, along with papers from the previous meeting. If anyone has any questions which they wish SAS to raise, please notify Graham Lang by the 18 December. Stakeholder meeting 19 Dec 2016 – Agenda Stakeholder meeting 8 June Read more…
Please consider answering this survey to support the Trust’s aspirations on planning reform. It is re Scottish planning and Scottish government planning Bill, although many of the questions are general about community engagement. The questions make sense to anyone who has had some involvement with a planning application or has Read more…
Dear Supporters, Another Xmas is racing its way towards us and many of you will be preoccupied with cooking, shopping, school plays and the many other activities that come to the fore at this time of year. However, if you have any time at all, we would like to ask Read more…
TWO years ago the renewables industry released a spinning report about the millions of tonnes of CO2 saved by wind turbines. This week it seized on a study that it hopes will help it hoodwink the general public for a tad longer (“Wind farms are ‘equivalent to taking 2.3m cars Read more…
By Iain Ramage People are being urged to contribute to council surveys on windfarm development in Caithness and the Black Isle. The latest legs of the region-wide exercise began last month (NOV) after the council’s adoption of “onshore wind energy supplementary guidance.” Principal planner David Cowie said: “As with a Read more…
Edinburgh-based Swift TG Energy (Scotland) has secured a £420,000 grant to further develop its innovative new vertical axis wind turbine – the WindSurf. The Innovate UK grant will be used to help complete the research and development stage of the project, and finalise the manufacture of two full-scale prototype turbines. Read more…
The Thrive Renewables fund has raised £7.7 million in four weeks to build two new onshore windfarms in Scotland with a combined capacity of 11MW. Once built, these will be able to generate enough electricity for more than 8,500 homes. In addition, Bristol-based Thrive has a pipeline of 20MW of Read more…