Scottish Renewables chief executive Niall Stuart is to step down in August to set up a consultancy focused on strategic communications, policy development and regulatory affairs. http://renews.biz/106197/stuart-to-leave-scots-renewables/
The Scottish Government today gave its permission for a £250million, eight turbine wind farm to be built off the north-east coast. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/133707/government-approves-wind-farm-off-aberdeen-coast/
WIND developers, their pressure groups and the likes of the WWF regularly regale us with their claim that onshore wind generated electricity is the cheapest source available. If this is indeed the case, why are they up in arms protesting the removal of subsidies for onshore wind? GM Lindsay, Whinfield Read more
By Iain Ramage A windfarm developer has insisted that a windfarm would not harm a Bronze Age gem that attracts tourists to the Highlands from around the world. The company’s defence in the latest appeal against turbines rejected by Highland councillors began with an archaeology consultant playing down the impact Read more