Authorities in the Western Isles have given their backing to contentious plans for a wind farm in Lewis which has been the subject of a near decade-long battle. Councillors will be asked this week to endorse the Lewis Wind Power development, which would see some of the tallest onshore turbines Read more
This is a long article but worth the read. Conclusion Offshore wind is big, complicated and expensive engineering, and with the Hornsea and Dogger Bank and other big offshore wind farms under development, it’s increasing in all these aspects. Government and green groups keep telling us that offshore wind is Read more
Wind farm developers have now lodged a formal application for five turbines near Fintry. Force 9 Energy has lodged the proposal with Stirling Council planners for Shelloch Wind Farm on land two kilometres north west of Wester Cringate and south of Ling Hill in the Fintry Hills, 12km south-west of Read more
RENEWABLES giant Vattenfall has underlined the appeal of investing in Scotland where it is working on plans for a big expansion of its windfarm portfolio. The Swedish company is preparing to submit planning applications for four windfarms it wants to develop in Scotland and has already identified a range of Read more
The latest National Planning Framework is now in its early stages of development and as such there is not much detail yet about what it will contain. However, it is arguably the most important document in planning for us to try and influence as it sets the tone for local Read more
THE public were told that wind turbines would ‘save the planet’, or at least the UK’s minuscule 1.13 per cent proportion of it. What they were not told was that huge emissions would be created by the manufacture, shipping, haulage, site preparation and erection of wind turbines. The fact that Read more
London, 28 January: In the light of growing concern about a sharp rise in fuel poverty among millions of households, the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) is calling on the government to suspend immediately the green levies on energy bills, a cost that is now running at over £10 billion a Read more
The biggest ever opinion poll on climate change has found two-thirds of people think it is a “global emergency”. The survey shows people across the world support climate action and gives politicians a clear mandate to take the major action needed, according to the UN organisation that carried out the Read more