North Lowther Energy Initiative (NLEI) – Refused ECU00000426 Wind Farm (Generating station of >100 <200 MW Capacity) Installed capacity of the proposed generating station would be up to 147MW comprising up to 35 turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of 149 metres. Reporter – “Overall, I find Read more…
Scottish Government ministers are ignoring local views when it comes to determining applications for major onshore wind farms in the far north, it has been claimed. New figures show that Highland communities objecting to wind farms have been overruled on at least 40 occasions in the last five years. A Read more…
Whistling in the wind? TORY MP David Duguid should know better than to promise 250,000 green jobs (“Britain leads the way in the green industrial revolution”, The Herald, January 5). In 2010 the Offshore Wind Group, which consisted mainly of Scottish Government departments and wind energy companies, published a document Read more…
I WAS extremely lucky to play some golf over the fabulous Crail Links in glorious winter sunshine, a rare treat in these difficult times. As I played round I couldn’t help but notice the cable-laying vessel for the cutely-named Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm. A strange choice of Read more…