WIND TURBINE NOISE SCANDAL For the past four years, Uplawmoor and Neilston residents in the vicinity of Neilston Community Windfarm have been complaining to East Renfrewshire Council (ERC) Planning and Environmental Health departments about excessive wind turbine noise at their properties which was patently breaching the limits set Read more
By Andrew Keddie A bid to build a controversial wind farm near Hawick has been ditched after meeting with widespread public opposition. Hertfordshire-based Renewable Energy Systems sparked a furore in June last year by submitting a planning application for a 13-turbine wind farm at Highlee Hill, near Chesters, on land Read more
Two of the UK’s largest energy trade associations – as well as the head of Scottish Power – last night welcomed a commitment in the Tory party’s election manifesto which appears to pledge UK government support for more onshore wind power projects in what the London-based party calls Scotland’s ‘remote Read more