National Grid ESO highlights impact of two nuclear plants closing, while Centrica considers retaining its stake in the UK’s nuclear fleet By Rachel Millard 22 July 2021 • 4:52pm Britain must prepare for low energy supplies this winter as two nuclear plants shut down and workers return to the Read more…
By Mark Williamson Business Correspondent AS the focus on net zero sharpens it may be time to revisit attitudes to nuclear energy that developed before the scale of the threat posed by emissions-related climate change was realised. Nuclear has long been the bete noire of environmentalists who have highlighted the Read more…
I NOTE with interest your report on the recent Citizens’ Advice Scotland survey on taking steps towards the net zero target (“Scots ‘in the dark’ over what they can do to help achieve net zero”, The Herald, July 19). Sixty-eight per cent supported moves towards net zero but 65% had Read more…
More power to NIMBYs’ elbows I applaud Celia Hobbs for being a NIMBY and having fought with great success to save her area of the Pentland Hills from wind farm development (Letters, July 21). The phrase “serial wind farm objector” has been used by aggressive lawyers acting for developers at Read more…