The answer to a greener future for energy consumption is not blowin’ in the wind.
Article in today’s Sunday Times.
Reminder – Arecleoch Wind Farm Extension Inquiry starts tomorrow
A reminder to everyone that the Arecleoch Wind Farm Extension Inquiry (Barrhill, South Ayrshire) starts tomorrow at 1.30pm WIN-370-2 (Section 36 Wind Farm). Scotland Against Spin team member, Dr Rachel Connor has been asked to act as a public witness by third parties in regard to the Private Water Supply Read more…
Poll results on wind farms in Sutherland and Caithness ‘don’t reflect strength of feeling’ – campaigner – Northern Times
Highland anti-wind farm campaigner is disappointed in the results of a poll that showed only a slender majority in favour of halting further developments in the region. Brenda Herrick says that the £73 million paid out to wind farm operators in Caithness and Sutherland since the system of constraints payments Read more…
Perfect storm leaves energy suppliers in a spin – Telegraph
A combination of high winter demand and the pandemic is adding to financial pressure on the network By Rachel Millard 9 January 2021 • 5:00am Those in charge of making sure the nation’s lights stay on could see a problem looming as they took stock of power flows from suppliers Read more…
North Lowther Energy Initiative (NLEI) – Refused
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…
Wind farm objections in Highlands overruled on 40 occasions in past five years – John O Groat Journal
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…
Herald letters 8 Jan 2021
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…
What happened to offshore jobs? – Herald letters
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…