By Susy Macaulay Plans have been formed for a new wind farm about five miles north of Brora. Glasgow-based developer Renewable Energy Systems Ltd (RES) wants to erect up to 22 turbines just short of 500ft tall on land near Kintradwell Lodge. The site lies within 12.5 miles of Gordon Read more
Shell’s energy transition manager, Joanna Coleman, confirmed last night that the oil and gas giant was “absolutely” targeting the North Sea for future big offshore wind development. Shell ‘absolutely’ looking at big Scottish North Sea offshore wind projects
Land At Glenshimmeroch Hill, And Kilnair Hill, St Johns Town Of Dalry. Erection Of Wind Farm Comprising 10 Wind Turbines (Each With An Overall Height From Base To Tip Of Up To 149.9 Metres) – Appeal allowed. http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=120258
RE James Fenton’s excellent letter (September 3) on woodland: the pressing need to reduce carbon emissions requires informed strategies. Policies formulated on ill-informed opinions, or incomplete knowledge are just as great a risk to our future as carbon emissions. Everything we humans do has an impact that, through ignorance, can Read more
By Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent A Scottish renewable energy firm has started construction work on a windfarm it reckons will be the first in the country developed without the benefit of subsidy. Muirhall Energy expects the Crossdykes Wind Farm near Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway to start producing power Read more
Scotland Against Spin helped out when Helen Douglas was looking for ways to fund her Judicial Review to stop the Tullymurdoch wind farm in order to save the scottish wildcat who were living on the site https://scotlandagainstspin.org/…/wildcat-osprey-v-tullymu…/ This article which is featured in today’s Scotsman, might be of interest to Read more
“It’s only the wind They say it’s getting worse The trouble that it brings Haunts us like a curse…” Only the Wind. Pet Shop Boys, 1990 January 1978, and for me, this was Shetland: poured off the old St Clair in the howling darkness of a grim winter’s morning. Roads thick Read more
Stop this drive for wind power now Very informative article on wind farms in The Herald on Sunday (What is the true cost of wind power?, August 25). Linda Holt raised some very compelling issues in her case for the prosecution and add to these the destruction of the land Read more