Letter from Bev Gray who lives beside Cotton Farm WF SIR – The visual impact of wind turbines is bad enough. An even bigger problem for local communities, given increasing awareness of how low-frequency noise affects health, is the irregular thumping noise from working turbine blades. If the Government is Read more
Coal power developers risk wasting hundreds of billions of pounds as new renewables are now cheaper than new coal plants around the world, a report warns. In all major markets from the US to Europe, China, India and Australia, it already costs less to generate power from installing new wind Read more
The company behind a disputed hydro scheme on the banks of Loch Ness will map out its plans for a £15 million energy storage project near Kintore later this month. Intelligent Land Investments Group (ILI Group) intends to install batteries capable of storing and exporting 29.9 megawatts of electricity to Read more
We need a referendum – The Net Zero CO2 policy was waved through parliament without any meaningful debate, proper costings or cost benefit analysis. There was no party in the 2019 general election standing in all 650 seats that was against net zero to give voters the choice to vote Read more
Commercial tree plantations in Britain do not store carbon to help the climate crisis because more than half of the harvested timber is used for less than 15 years and a quarter is burned, according to a new report. While fast-growing non-native conifers can sequester carbon more quickly than slow-growing Read more
Today’s electricity system is a complex piece of engineering which touches the lives of everyone in the country. Paying for that system means making choices. Here we try to explain, with some help from National Grid: Why the wind turbines you see might not be turning, and; Why all generators Read more
THE SOUTH Korean owners of Britain’s only UK facility for manufacturing onshore and offshore windtowers insists “there is no concern”, despite ‘winding down’ concerns leading a government agency to win a court order to keep it running. Concerns were raised by ministers about the position of the South Korean-owned CS Read more
Another good letter from Wales this week again. Problems from both rain and wind Two letters in the Western Mail on March 6 caught my eye. Firstly, the excellent missive from Dave Haskell regarding the removal of trees in upland areas of Wales contributing to flash-flooding downstream (“Foolish remarks on Read more