The Inquiry into the Community Windpower Ltd appeal against the Enforcement Notice issued by East Ayrshire Council in relation to the Sneddon Law Windfarm gets underway on Tuesday 24 April at 10am in the Fenwick Hotel, near Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=118213 The Reporter considers that, given the nature of this Read more…
EVERY now and then one of your readers will write on the subject of renewable energy. This usually prompts a response after the letter by other regular readers (they know who they are) decrying such renewable sources as “windmills” (sic), with “the huge amount of concrete and steel used Read more…
The Scottish division of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has hit out against a study published today on the risk to seabirds through collision with offshore wind turbines, calling the findings a “very optimistic interpretation of data”. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/169267/study-of-wind-turbine-effect-on-seabirds-very-optimistic-interpretation-of-data-say-rspb/