By Andy Drane THE “green recovery” joins the growing list of Covid-era political maxims, suggesting a bright and environmentally sustainable post-pandemic future lies ahead. The Prime Minister once again alluded to it recently when he expressed his ambition to see the UK become the “world leader in clean wind energy”. Read more
ECU Reference: ECU00002141 Planning Authority: East Ayrshire Council; Dumfries and Galloway Council Construction and operation of Euchanhead Renewable Energy Development comprising 21 wind turbines, proposed energy storage facility and associated permanent and temporary ancillary infrastructure. Max Turbine Height: 230
London, 9 November: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has today written to the chairman of the Treasury Committee of the House of Commons providing new evidence for their inquiry into the Net Zero target. The letter presents data from windfarm accounts showing that the wind industry has overestimated the Read more
I was astonished to hear a SEPA representative state that the latest explanation for sediment entering the Sandwater loch was “silty water was coming through a previously unidentified existing fracture in rock on the bed of a roadside ditch” and that they had looked into the matter after concerns were Read more
The timing would have rarely go wrong. Only a week after Boris Johnson helped large-scale expansion of offshore wind farms to power all UK homes, the National Grid was forced to issue a rare warning. “The unusually low wind power that coincides with the shutdown of many generators means that Read more
By Scott Reid The 50:50 partnership will harness the “wealth of expertise” that both companies have within the wind energy sector and support their “mutual growth ambitions”. As well as powering up to one million homes, the Inch Cape offshore wind farm development is poised to play a key role Read more
MSPS have called on the SNP to fork out more funding to kickstart a green recovery from the pandemic – while ministers have been told to “co-ordinate and finance a sufficiently large investment stimulus” from Boris Johnson’s government. The Scottish Government has committed to harnessing a low carbon economy as Read more
FRESH concerns have been raised about Scotland’s ambition to be the Saudi Arabia of renewables with a wind-farm jobs bonanza, as fears grow over the future of another key taxpayer-supported company. It has been confirmed that South Korean-owned CS Wind, Britain’s only UK facility for manufacturing onshore and offshore wind Read more