WIND farm developer Viking Energy has expressed its regret for allowing silt run offs from its construction site to enter nearby Sand Water, a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) and one of the many lochs regularly checked for its water quality as part of the project. Shetland Islands Council, Read more…
THE FUNDRAISING manager of the £1.65 million MRI scanner appeal has expressed his gratitude to the Viking Energy wind farm benefit fund for its offer to donate £200,000 towards the community effort. The chairman of the campaign group opposing the wind farm has meanwhile condemned the offer as a “PR Read more…
A councillor who is concerned about the growth of wind farms in Caithness says he is more convinced than ever that the planning system is fundamentally flawed and “profoundly undemocratic”. Matthew Reiss warns that even if there are hundreds of local objections to a particular proposal the numbers “do not Read more…
SCOTTISH and Southern Energy (SSE) last week announced a major contract for all the fabrication work for the 114 offshore wind turbines planned for the Seagreen array off the east coast of Fife. Rather than to the currently mothballed BiFab yards in Methil and Burntisland, the work has gone, lock, Read more…