Ditcher Law Wind Farm approximately 8km north west of Lauder Pre Application ECU Reference: ECU00002173 Planning Authority: Scottish Borders Council Wind farm consisting of up to 15 x 220m wind turbines and associated infrastructure including electrical transformers, hardstandings, access roads, cabling, borrow pits and an electrical substation. http://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationDetails.aspx?cr=ECU00002173
A public inquiry into plans for a 39-turbine wind farm in a Highland mountain range has heard it could ultimately lead to a “complex larger than the city of Dundee” being built on a “once tranquil plateau”. The proposed Glenshero development would be sited next to the recently built 66-turbine Read more…
Ministers from both sides of the border have visited the scene of a huge peat slide on the Tyrone Donegal border. The incident saw thousands of tonnes of peat washed into an internationally protected salmon spawning river. Environment minister Edwin Poots and the Republic’s Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue met at Read more…