The Cairngorms National Park is in danger of becoming surrounded by a ring of steel, one of its planning committee members has warned. The park authority’s committee agreed not to object to two proposed wind farms at locations scores of miles apart – in the Monadhliaths and in Moray – Read more
THE SNP have allowed Scotland’s renewable energy industry to be “hollowed out” and jobs have “gone oversees”, according to one Scottish politician. In a furious rant to the BBC’s ‘Any Questions?’ yesterday Murdo Fraser MSP slammed Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for misleading the public on Scotland’s renewable energy industry. Read more
FORTUNE, as the old saying goes, favours the brave. When ScottishPower moved into renewables generation more than a quarter of a century ago, the technology was very much in its infancy and its economic future uncertain. We are now in an entirely different energy universe. Renewables are literally powering our Read more