Holyrood has announced that former Transport Secretary Michael Matheson will take over responsibility for Scottish energy policy. Matheson will assume the new role of Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, which will encompass transport, environmental protection, energy and COP26 delivery. He served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Read more
Mike Hulme – and early thorn in the side of the wind industry – has died. Hulme rose to fame as a quiet determined voice of objection pitted against the idealistic Den Brook turbine developer Rachel Ruffles in a TV documentary. The documentary showed planners weighing up the arguments for Read more
It is undoubtedly no coincidence that Renewables UK chose this week to release the result of their survey showing support for onshore wind farms. They obviously got “wind” (pardon the pun), of Scotland Against Spin’s current petition to the Scottish Parliament seeking to “increase the ability of communities to Read more