Caithness anti-wind farm campaigners have written to Highland Council’s legal department to challenge what they see as a breach of government guidelines in the authority’s planning process. Brenda Herrick of Caithness Windfarm Information Forum (Cwif) believes councillors and planners give too much credence to comments in support of wind farm Read more…
The Highlands’ abundance of wind is generating eye-watering sums for wind farm operators – when they switch-off their turbines. So-called ‘constraint payments’ are made to energy firms when the national grid can’t cope with the amount of power their sites are generating. The payments often far exceed the payment from Read more…
Mike Moore’s Planet of The Humans revealed the wholesale environmental destruction caused by wind and solar; the climate cult naturally hated it. The scale of the environmental havoc caused giant wind and solar farms is out of all proportion to the economic benefits they provide; if any. Apart from the Read more…
A bid to extend the lifespan of the Fallago Rig wind farm by five years has been given the thumbs-up by Scottish ministers, however. Energy firm EDF Renewables had wanted to add an extra 12 turbines up to 127m tall to the 48 operational there for the last seven years Read more…
Worker sustains burns and falls from height at Highland wind farm An investigation has been launched after a maintenance worker was rushed to hospital with burn injuries and having “fallen from height” at a Highland wind farm. The man in his 30s remains in “serious but stable condition” after being Read more…
A 25-megawatt battery-based energy storage system has been connected to the electricity grid to store surplus power from wind and solar plants. Located in a field near Taunton, it works by buying and storing electricity when it is cheap and then selling it at peak demand for a profit. It Read more…
Climate cultists reckon the wholesale environmental destruction wreaked by the wind and solar industries is all for the good of planet. It’s an argument that holds all the logic of amputating an entire leg to prevent a septic toe from doing any further damage, when a dose of penicillin would do Read more…
ScottishPower Renewables’ proposed 100.8MW Clauchrie wind farm looks set to go to a planning inquiry after an objection from South Ayrshire Council. The statutory consultee cited significant adverse landscape and visual effects due to the scale and positioning of the proposed turbines. The council said that this would not be Read more…