Nuclear plea Lorna Slater’s article “Where’s the climate urgency?” (Scotsman, 17 April) makes interesting reading. It refers to a green recovery and says Scotland must not be left behind. With regard to energy and making the transition to electrification, Scotland has been left behind. This is mainly due to the Read more
Highland villagers have insisted “enough is enough” as they demand an end to wind farm developments around their community. Residents in Rosehall, Sutherland, have issued a desperate plea to the Scottish Government to draw a line now. Between operational and proposed developments, the residents so far face the prospect of Read more
Viking have managed to create a peat slide in the middle of a dry spell of weather.
IT’S BEEN very cold here for several weeks, and dry as well. Apparently this is caused by an area of high pressure stubbornly lodged over Northern Europe. (This type of weather system is accompanied by low winds, and if I am reading this article right, that means our windfarms have Read more
Three DPEA webcasts for you to watch over the next week or so: Sanquhar II Community Wind Farm, 6.5Km West Of Sanquhar, 4Km South Of Kelloholm And 14Km Northwest Of Thornhill, Polskeoch, Dumfries & Galloway And East Ayrshire – Pre Exam meeting WIN-170-2006 Tuesday, 20th April 2021 at 10:00am Limekiln Read more
THANK GOODNESS FOR GAS I WOULD like to add to Aileen Jackson’s letter on wind farms (April 14). For much of this week almost windless conditions are dominating the UK and it brings into question the point of having wind turbines. On Tuesday (April 13) at 7am wind farms were Read more
SOME weeks ago, I received a notification from Companies House that one of Britain’s latest offshore windfarms, Walney Extension, had published its financial accounts for 2019. My interest in the accounts was prompted by the strange contrast between the very high costs of recent windfarms (installation and operating), and the Read more
The Global Warming Policy Forum has condemned what it called the “obscenity” of windfarm subsidies and has called for a complete rethink of energy policy. GWPF research has shown that just six offshore windfarms are now sharing £1.6 billion pounds in subsidies between them every year. Three receive annual subsidies Read more