Highland Council planners have received a flood of objections to a Sutherland wind farm proposal. Around 290 representations have so far been made to the authority in connection with the nine-turbine Meall Buidhe scheme. The majority, but not all, of these are objections. Meall Buidhe Renewables LLP are seeking consent Read more…
Chirmorie Wind Farm – Screening. Dumfries and Galloway/South Ayrshire. Ref No ECU00002150 Chirmorie Wind Farm Ltd (the Applicant) intends to submit an application for further variation of consent under section 36C of the Electricity Act 1989 for the consented Chirmorie Wind Farm (CWF located approximately 5 km south west of Read more…
Cartoon in the Guardian today. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2020/oct/06/steve-bell-on-boris-johnsons-wind-power-pledge-cartoon?fbclid=IwAR1gbd1JSqZ51nYzk17C3_URGnwPKybbguH6eVsG7sZ3drGDuudtwPXKnIc
Back in 2013, a London mayor by the name of Boris Johnson declared wind farms could not “pull the skin off a rice pudding”. Today, a Prime Minister by the name of Boris Johnson used his Conservative Party conference speech to claim that “offshore wind will be powering every home Read more…