THE success of your Great Rates Revolt campaign in achieving additional rate relief to segments of Scottish business (“Mackay bows to rates hike fears with £45m package”, The Herald, February 22) highlights the contrast with the failure of Holyrood to keep its promise to eliminate fuel poverty affecting 40 per Read more
The combined fury of Scotland’s licensed trade is enough to have anyone reaching for a drink, as the Scottish Government found out recently in the ensuing wrangle over the proposed changes to business rates. Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/ross-mcdowall-qualified-relief-on-renewable-rates-1-4381941
We believe that your readers deserve to know the truth about wind power, so have set out some popular myths and given the facts which show the actuality. Myth 1: Onshore wind is the UK’s cheapest form of new power generation, so we should use it to keep people’s electricity Read more
A three-turbine extension to Muirhall wind farm in South Lanarkshire has been officially opened by Scottish Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse. He was later joined by Declan Cullinane and the team from GE which supplied the 2.75MW turbines, and Chris Rodgers from Close Brothers, who provided finance for the development, on Read more