The UK Government will set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels, announced today. In line with the recommendation from the independent Climate Change Committee, the UK’s Sixth Carbon Budget limits the volume of greenhouse gases emitted Read more
An anti-wind farm campaigner has warned the Dava Moor is in danger of becoming an industrial landscape after the latest application to extend the Tom nan Clach wind farm on Cawdor Estate. Pat Wells, of Strathdearn Against Windfarm Developments, said the news of the plan to extend Tom nan Clach Read more
ORGANISATIONS opposing the construction of the large Viking Energy wind farm in the centre of the Shetland mainland have warned to expect more peat slides after an area at the south of Scalla Field gave way on Sunday. Diggers were seen all day yesterday (Sunday) trying to stabilise the area Read more
Wind Turbine Noise 2021 May 18-21, 2021 e-Conference from Europe You can download the Conference Programme Book here This has the full programme and all the abstracts. Aileen Jackson and Rosemary Milne will take part on behalf of SAS.
How ironic to read the Scotsman Leader declare “It’s zero hour for renewables” (Scotsman 17th April). As the entire wind industry, carpeting our finest landscapes and now seascapes, has been flat-lining virtually all week, should it not be called Zero week for renewables? On a single day in April last Read more
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are on course to see their second-largest increase in history, a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report released today shows. IEA’s Global Energy Review forecasts emissions to surge by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021, reversing most of last year’s decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
An energy company is aiming to build 11 turbines at a site about three miles south of Dufftown. Fred. Olsen Renewables says it has begun community consultations about the proposed Glenfiddich Wind Farm, sited on high ground near Bridgehaugh on the A941. Should the windfarm get the go-ahead, the company Read more
Amazon has invested in a major Scottish offshore wind project as the internet giant continues to ramp up its green credentials. The site will generate some 350 megawatts of power once operational and is said to be the largest corporate renewable energy deal announced by any business in the UK Read more