The detonation of wartime bombs left on the seafloor around the UK must end to stop the deaths of whales and dolphins, campaigners say. The offshore wind industry is expanding rapidly and this may lead to a sharp rise in such explosions as the seafloor is cleared before construction. Read more…
“As Saudi Arabia is to oil, the UK is to wind” – that’s how Boris Johnson described the country’s potential to capitalise on renewable energy recently. For Scotland, it’s not the first time comparisons have been drawn with Saudi Arabia. Back when he was first minister, Alex Salmond said Scotland Read more…
A CANADIAN company gained control of a troubled renewables manufacturer seen as a key part of the future of Scotland’s wind farm revolution for just £1 as ministers ploughed in tens of millions, the Herald on Sunday can reveal. It has emerged that while the Scottish Government injected over £37.4m Read more…
Britain’s bid to build enough offshore windfarms to power every home in the country by 2030 risks being derailed by outdated regulation which is slowing investment in the electricity grid, according to one of the industry’s biggest players. Germany’s RWE has warned that work to connect the growing number of Read more…
Article in today’s Mail on Sunday with a quote from our Chairman, Graham Lang.
Balancing precariously at the top of a stepladder clutching an unwieldy wind turbine in my arms, I am attempting to do my bit to save the planet – and it is all going horribly wrong. I am keen to install a wind turbine in the back garden of my four-bedroom Read more…