The following is the Executive Summary of the Scottish Energy Strategy. The full 85pps document can be downloaded from: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0052/00529523.pdf Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Scotland’s first Energy Strategy sets out the Scottish Government’s vision for the future energy system in Scotland. It articulates six energy priorities for a whole-system approach Read more…
German utility Uniper will start up its Datteln IV hard-coal fired power station in the fourth quarter of 2018, it said in slides for an analyst and investor call on Thursday, having previously planned to start it in the first half 2018. https://www.thegwpf.com/germany-to-open-another-new-coal-power-plant/
Erection Of Windfarm Comprising Of 7 Wind Turbines 126.5M High To Tip, Associated Infrastructure, Ancillary Buildings And Temporary Borrow Pits http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=118388
The legal, political and planning battles between billionaire US business man (and now US president) Donald Trump and Alex Salmond (then Scotland’s First Minister) perfectly demonstrate the mess that is the Scottish planning system. John Campbell, QC, one of the country’s top lawyers who has direct professional experience of the Read more…
Mike Merritt The retiring head of the body representing Scotland’s climbers and hillwalkers has condemned as “unsustainable” the growth of wind farms on wild land across the country. David Gibson is to step down as chief executive officer of Mountaineering Scotland in March, after 11 years leading the group Read more…
I WOULD like to respond to your article on wind farms (“Warning wild lands ‘irrevocably damaged’ by push for wind power”, The Herald, December 15). Onshore wind provides the bulk of Scotland’s green energy, displaces millions of tonnes of carbon emissions each year and supports 7,500 jobs across the Read more…
Methodological Critique of the Report ‘Wind Farms and Tourism Trends in Scotland’ Revised Version by Biggar Economics Ltd, Appraisal_of_the_Second_Biggar_SE_Study_original
SCOTLAND has for some time led the UK’s efforts to be greener and cleaner, setting and meeting ambitious greenhouse targets and being at the forefront of green technologies. It’s right and proper that an experienced energy-producing nation like Scotland should pursue a green agenda, particularly since it makes business as Read more…