A council is being advised to oppose plans for a 45-turbine wind farm straddling the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway. The plans by Community Windpower would see about 200 people employed during construction, with the scheme projected to provide energy for 325,000 homes. A final decision on the Faw Side Read more
Around 1,600 trees a day are being cut down to make way for ever-increasing numbers of wind turbines. Five wind farms alone have resulted in millions of trees being axed – flying in the face of a Scottish Government commitment to plant 25,000 acres of trees every year to help Read more
New turbines even more intrusive ERG waxes lyrical about the repowering of wind farms (“Net zero on the horizon”, The Herald, February 18), a process by which the turbines are dismantled and replaced with technologically-advanced new turbines. It is true that turbine numbers may be reduced by half using this Read more
Anyone wishing to watch Dr Rachel Connor’s Tribunal Hearing this morning starting at 10am, should advise the Hearing beforehand by emailing GRC@justice.gov.uk and advising you will be joining the Hearing. EA/2020/0009 Rachel Connor and Low Carbon Contracts Company Ltd vs Information Commissioner and Sneddon Law Community Wind Company Limited Having Read more
Home heating systems shutting down. Hospitals facing water shortages. Oil refineries going offline. The freezing, snowy weather in Texas exposed how quickly an energy system can be brought down and how widespread the chaos can be. That raises questions about the vulnerability of power grids around the world just as Read more
On Monday 22nd and 23rd February , SAS team member, Dr Rachel Connor and her counsel will be pitted in an information Tribunal Hearing. against the might of three London legal teams and their barristers. (Representing the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) and Sneddon Read more
Jonathan Brocklebank I received notification the other day of a neighbour’s plans to convert an outbuilding on his property into habitable accommodation. Should I wish to object I have 28 days to do so but, says the notice, if my challenge falls on deaf ears, I have no right of Read more
The man who won the high court battle over one of the world’s biggest planned wind farms has said he will continue his fight. Raymond Pearce has halted the progress of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard wind farm after bringing before the court evidence that the planning processes currently in place were not adequate. Although consent Read more