We are very sorry to tell you that the Reporter, Mr Michael Cunliffe has allowed three of the four appeals by Community Windpower Ltd against the decision by East Ayrshire Council. Discharge of Condition 36 (Private Water Supplies) of Planning Consent 13/0198/PP dated 28 October 2015 refused by notice dated Read more
By David Kerr Plans for a 24-turbine windfarm in Caithness have been dealt a blow after councillors decided to object to the scheme. Members of Highland Council’s north planning committee overturned advice from officials in order to oppose the Limekiln Windfarm. The committee heard there were concerns about the impact Read more
MARK WILLIAMSON SCOTTISH Power chief Keith Anderson has underlined the company’s desire to continue investing in Scotland and indicated it was unconcerned by the prospect of a second independence referendum in the country. Noting the Spanish-owned utility is developing eight onshore windfarms in Scotland amid record construction activity, Mr Anderson Read more
Dear Supporters, Some of you may remember the story late last year about Helen Douglas, the Perthshire hill shepherdess who took up the cudgels for the Scottish wildcat against a wind farm developer at Tullymurdoch. Tullymurdoch is one of the last remaining territories for a species which is on the Read more
One summer evening I was walking through long grasses on the face of the hill opposite my cottage. A striped wildcat kitten shot from underneath my left foot. The only other occasion I have seen a live wildcat, she was sunning herself in a hollow. I watched her through binoculars Read more
David Ross The two tallest wind turbines in Scotland, more than three times the height of Edinburgh’s Scott Monument, could soon be floating four miles off the north coast, if ministers approve the development. But residents in one fragile Highland community fear the giant yellow structures, could make the already Read more
Tom Gordon, Scottish Political Editor ALMOST 10,000 businesses across Scotland are to spared crippling rates rises after the SNP Government bowed to pressure and unveiled a £45m package of support. After initially maintaining he had done enough to help firms through the first rates revaluation since 2010, Derek Mackay belatedly Read more
FOR my sins I am scientist, admittedly not a climate scientist but a geologist, and I despair when I see letters such as that from Ian McNeish (February 20). The basic thesis of his letter is that anthropogenic climate change is a fallacy, unfortunately one supported by 97 per cent Read more