May 2017

The Conservative Party has today published its manifesto, revealing wide-ranging plans to deliver on the UK’s long term climate change commitments through new investments in wind farms, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency.   http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3010347/conservative-manifesto-wind-farms

By Kieran Andrews Nicola Sturgeon has urged the RSPB not to appeal against a court ruling backing a £10 billion of offshore renewables development off the Tay and Fife coast. The First Minister was asked at Holyrood about the Inner House of the Court of Session’s dismissal of an earlier Read more

  Trump lost a legal fight to keep offshore windmills from spoiling the views from his Scottish golf course. Years later, there’s still none there and the industry nationwide has missed its ambitious goals. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-17/scotland-fights-to-keep-its-renewable-energy-dream-alive

CONSERVATIONISTS have warned thousands of Scotland’s seabirds will be put under threat after ministers won a court battle to give the go-ahead for four massive offshore windfarms. The RSPB said it was “bitterly disappointed” over the decision from the Inner House of the Court of Session, with the charity having Read more

  Britain has – just – scraped back into the top 10 most attractive countries for renewable energy investment – but the outlook for the industry remains cloudy amid a lingering lack of clarity around targets and subsidies. In the latest index of renewable energy country attractiveness (RECAI), the UK Read more

One of Scotland’s leading conservation bodies has appointed a woman to its top job for the first time, with Anne McCall becoming director of RSPB Scotland at the end of the month. She has already been with the RSPB for nearly 19 years, having joined in 1998 as a member Read more

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has denied claims that the concerns of homeowners who live near wind farms are ignored by the Scottish Government.   http://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/News/First-Minister-insists-communities-are-not-sidelined-in-wind-farm-planning-15052017.htm