TOURISM is Scotland’s major business and there are a record number of tourists visiting. This success comes with problems. Skye can’t cope with the numbers, the ferry services to the outer isles are inadequate and the visitor footfall at Culloden is causing damage to the clan graves on the battlefield. Read more…
The Scottish Government has deflected criticism from the GMB and Unite unions by claiming it is trying to encourage offshore wind developers to use local suppliers. Unions described the situation for Scottish workers a “rip off” on Friday, adding that those who subsidise Scotland’s windfarms are “denied the opportunity to Read more…
I NOTE your article regarding remote island wind (“Renewable energy boom driven by £557m auctions”, The Herald, July 24). Sustainable Shetland would like to respond to this article, and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) press releases that prompted it, from the Shetland perspective. Scotland is set Read more…
Law firm Harper Macleod has reaped the rewards of the UK’s thriving secondary market in renewable energy, completing a record series of deals. The Glasgow firm enjoyed “unprecedented” success in the past six months as it completed projects worth more than £300 million. https://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/law-firm-s-renewables-projects-reach-300m-1-4775636
Tom Peterkin Consumers have forked out millions of pounds to switch off Scottish wind turbines while a sub-sea cable to transfer surplus renewable energy south of the Border has been out of action. Scotland on Sunday has learned that the Western Link running from Hunterston in Ayrshire to the Wirral Read more…
Trade unions said today that the “great renewables rip off must stop now” following a “successful” trip to Canada to meet new BiFab owners DF Barnes. GMB and Unite said the meeting with the Newfoundland firm was “productive”, but hit out at the lack of supply chain opportunities in Scotland. Read more…
Scotland is set to enjoy a new renewable energy boom, according to an article in a national newspaper earlier this week. It states that islands like those in Shetland are ideal locations for the development of wind power “because of their natural stormy environments”. One might be forgiven for thinking Read more…
The government’s latest annual energy statistics show that renewable energy is consolidating its central role as a mainstream power source for homes, offices and factories. The figures published in the energy sector’s “bible” – the Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) – confirm that 29.3% of the UK’s electricity Read more…