The Scottish Ministers recently refused section 36 consent for the Keirs Hill wind farm. Of the 7 section 36 applications they’ve decided so far in 2016, 5 have been granted – a 71% success rate. That’s an increase from 50% success in 2015, in which 12 applications were decided. https://brodies.com/insights/planning-environment-and-climate/on-shore-wind-consents-success-rate-in-scotland/
More communities are producing their own renewable energy, with a 17% increase in nine months, according to a new report. http://www.briefreport.co.uk/news/rise-in-number-of-scots-communities-producing-own-energy-4644537.html
I LOOK forward in 2017 to the organisation calling itself the World Wildlife Fund (Scotland) addressing any issue relating to wildlife as opposed to pontificating about renewable energy, electric cars and road safety. GM Lindsay, Whinfield Gardens, Kinross.
By Calum Ross Councillors have been urged not to block revised plans for 24 turbines near the NC500 route in Caithness – despite hundreds of objections. The windfarm scheme for Limekilns Estate at Reay was thrown out last year after opposition from Highland Council about visual and wild land impacts Read more