There is a growing belief that waters to the north of Caithness could play host to major offshore wind farms comparable in scale to the Beatrice and Moray schemes off the east coast. Scrabster is being seen as ideally placed to benefit from any expansion following on from the proposed Read more…
Wind farm noise and low-frequency sound waves (“Living in the shadows of the wind farm’s turbine tyrants”, The Herald, September 26). Scottish Power Renewables should buy Pat Spence’s home, now surrounded by 184 enormous wind turbines. SPR is part of Iberdrola, advertised on its website as a global energy leader, Read more…
“Disbenefits” is a simple word. It’s a heading in a business case, and often the words below don’t amount to much, at least not if you want the business case to proceed. The disbenefits of the VE [Viking Energy] project however are huge. The carbon released by excavating tonnes of Read more…
Air traffic service provider, NATS is investing in a new advanced radar to replace its facility at Lowther Hill. The new radar has enhanced capabilities that will allow it to mitigate against the interference caused by wind turbines. The project is expected to enable the release of large amounts of Read more…
A PROPOSED interconnector cable between Shetland and Norway still remains under consideration, according to its developer. The 600MW Maali link has been mooted for a number of years and a prerequisite of the project was the Caithness to Shetland interconnector going ahead. With that link having received the green light Read more…
I refer to Mr. Bell’s letter from 25 September. “I see no contradiction”, said the blind man. Mr. Bell must be deaf as well as blind if he is still unaware of the huge groundswell of opposition to the SSE/VE windfarm. Since construction work started folk have become fully aware of Read more…
Aberdeen has been selected as the home for the “world’s first” offshore floating facility to produce green hydrogen. The “pioneering” Dolphyn project will sit 15km off the coast, allowing the UK to harness the power of the superfuel using floating wind turbines. Developer Environmental Resources Management (ERM) described it as Read more…
Scotland’s economy secretary has been challenged by Labour to stop “outsourcing” green industry jobs as yet more windfarm work goes overseas. Last week it was announced BiFab – which operates two fabrication yards in Fife and one near Stornoway – had failed to win any of the work for the Read more…