The Scot-Govt has approved a planning application to build a new wind-power electricity generation station in Ayrshire. The government said that the development is in line with its Scottish national planning guidelines to encourage renewable energy investments. In a first-round application to the local planning board at East Ayrshire Council, Read more…
Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor THE Scottish Government has a stake in the troubled engineering firm BiFab to help secure hundreds of jobs, the First Minister has announced. Nicola Sturgeon today visited its fabrication yard in Fife to announce new investment has been found for the firm’s two sites Read more…
Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor SNP ministers took over a controversial planning application partly to help enrich the Chinese-state backers who met Nicola Sturgeon last week, it has emerged. Planning Minister Kevin Stewart said his “call-in” of a grid connection for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm gave it Read more…
The decision to call in a planning application for a wind farm development in East Lothian has “no connection whatsoever” to the First Minister’s recent trip to China. Inch Cape decision unconnected to Sturgeon’s China visit, claims minister