By Alan Simpson SCOTLAND is set for a multi-billion economic boost under plans to dramatically increase the number of offshore windfarms around Britain’s coastline. Under the plan, one third of all Britain’s electricity will come from offshore wind by 2030 as the UK Government unveils a new deal with the Read more…
Andrew and Rosemary Milne from Northern Aberdeenshire made an application to a Sheriff Court for a noise abatement order because they had been troubled over many years by noise from one of three 80m turbines set in a straight line northeast of the house and stables. The machine made a Read more…
By Gareth Rose The SNP’s ”ideological obsession” with green eergy has seen the Scottish Government overturn half the large-scale wind farm plans rejected by councils. Bids to develop some of Scotland’s biggest wind turbine developments have been refused by local authorities on 38 occasions since 2010. But The Scottish Mail Read more…
Brookfield Renewable UK Limited (BRUK) intends to apply to the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit (ECU) for Section 36 consent under the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate an extension to Kennoxhead Wind Farm (‘the proposed Development’), south-west of Glespin, in South Lanarkshire. http://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationSearch.aspx
Erection Of 8 Wind Turbines And Associated Development http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=118469
Andrew and Rosemary Milne have been successful in their noise nuisance case against Stuartfield Windpower Ltd and have been awarded expenses. We will post a statement from their lawyer shortly.
The Scottish Government has overruled Moray Council decisions to refuse wind farm developments 10 times in the last decade. New figures provided by energy minister, Paul Wheelhouse, during parliamentary questions showed that planning decisions made by Moray Council officials have been overturned on a yearly basis. That included two major Read more…