The case was settled in a private out of court settlement before christmas with payouts expected to be awarded at a Hearing in April. The private action was taken by householders living near the Carraigcannon Windfarm operated by Enercon. It operates the same design of turbines as another ongoing nuisance Read more
A NORWEGIAN oil giant has sold one quarter of its stake in the world’s first floating wind farm, situated off the Peterhead coast, to an Abu Dhabi-based renewables firm. Statoil is behind the innovative 30MW Hywind Floating Pilot Park, which will see the deployment of five floating turbines with the Read more
A PENNILESS Scottish bankrupt conned a businesswoman into financing a new venture by claiming to be a millionaire who had won the Queen’s Award for Exports. Patrick McGarry was branded as “a thoroughly dishonest man” by a judge after he heard he had cheated creditors and told a string of Read more
A British businessman will fight extradition to Germany where he is wanted over allegations he was involved in a £100 million VAT scam. Peter Singh Virdee, 43, a philanthropist and Tory party donor who has been pictured with the Queen, was detained earlier this month under a European Arrest Warrant Read more
People who have objected to plans for two wind turbines at a hill farm in Shandon have been labelled “narrow minded and selfish” by a local access campaigner. John Urquhart, who lives in Helensburgh and is a trustee of the Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust, says the Read more
Detailed plans for a wind farm near Hawick have been unveiled. Glasgow-based Energiekontor have applied for permission to erect a total of 12 turbines on land at Harwood Estate. Seven of the turbines will reach a height of 158.5 metres while the remaining five will be 130 metres. Over Read more