Over 300 bird’s of prey in Ireland were found to have been poisoned or died in unnatural circumstances according to a report published by the Raptor Protocol. The Raptor Protocol (Recording and Addressing Persecution and Threats to Our Raptors) is a collaborative project involving the National Parks and Wildlife Service Read more…
JOHN Edmondson (Letters, October 19) understates the problems associated with wind turbines. They are just foreign cash machines, sucking in subsidies and constraint payments and spitting out expensive part-time electricity, while ruining the landscape and the health of those who live near them. But the real problem with wind as Read more…
Wind farm proposals in Skye and Caithness received polar opposite reactions from councillors at yesterday’s Highland Council north planning committee. Proposals by Kilmac Energy to modify plans for its Glen Ullinish windfarm at Struan, on Skye, were backed by elected members. But Infinergy’s proposals to extend their unpopular Limekiln wind Read more…
The head of the Fishermen’s Association in Jersey says the loss of French fishing grounds due to a wind farm project off the coast of St Brieuc is putting increased pressure on local fishing grounds.The project, which has been in planning for almost a decade, has now moved into the Read more…