COUNTRYFILE viewers were divided over Charlotte Smith’s investigation into the environmental impact of wind farms in tonight’s instalment of the BBC countryside show. Countryfile presenter Charlotte Smith looked into the impact offshore wind farms have on the UK countryside in the most recent episode of the BBC show. She met Read more
Off the grid Alan Brown MP said in your article in the Scotsman (July 10) that Scots windfarms are being penalised by staggering energy grid charges. Scotland is subject to the highest grid charges in Europe. In Sutherland constraint payments have now reached £68.4 million. Why do we keep following Read more
WAKE UP TO HOW THE WORLD WORKS ALTHOUGH The Ferret and The Herald are to be congratulated for revealing the facts they have been doing (“Who runs Scotland, July 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16), I find it extremely worrying that any of it comes as news to anyone who Read more
The DPEA Annual Review for 2020/21 has now been published. https://www.gov.scot/publications/planning-environmental-appeals-annual-review-2020-21/
Mast madness Jim Pratt alerts the people of Edinburgh to an application to change the conditions of a consented wind farm at Cloich Forest to the right of the road from Edinburgh to Peebles (Letters, 14 July) with 12 turbines, 8 metres short of the height of Blackpool Tower. The Read more
Orkney Islands Council (OIC) has handed in its planning application for a six-turbine wind farm on the uninhabited island of Faray. The scheme is one of a trio of proposed wind farms which make up Orkney’s Community Wind Farm Project. The developments would help trigger the installation of a new Read more
NICOLA STURGEON was told she may need to “find a new customer” for Scotland’s excess renewable energy in the event of a breakaway from the UK. The leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has claimed another vote “is the will of the country” and reaffirmed that it is a Read more
Epic Failures on Wind Energy Well done to the Ferret and the Herald for their excellent articles on wind farmers, obscene profits and tax avoidance. We have known for years that LLPs who operate windfarms send their revenues to tax havens overseas, where they are (not) taxed. From there benefits Read more