Next week sees the deadline for comments on Orkney Islands Council’s planning application for a major wind farm development on the small island of Faray. This will mean it is likely that all three of the planning applications under the council’s Community Wind Farm Project will soon be with the Read more
Mid Moile Wind Farm Pre Application ECU Reference: ECU00003308 Planning Authority: Dumfries and Galloway Council 21 x 230m turbines The nearest settlements are Cairnryan (1.5km south-west) and Stranraer (7km south). The surrounding landscape is scattered with farms and other rural dwellings. Glen App wind farm is located immediately north of Read more
http://shet.news This week I read in the local media that Shetland is to be The UK’s first “Green Energy Island” and that Orion is to receive £2.8 million towards its aspirations. Then I read infrastructure director John Smith describing this on behalf of the SIC, a partner in Orion as Read more
In what just could be an indirect response to my Mail on Sunday piece – which provoked 3,706 comments on the website, we’ve had the peripatetic idiot raiding the dressing-up box again, this time in order to visit a wind turbine blade factory in Hull. He was alongside his business Read more
Peat offenders Dr Matt Aitkenhead criticises Ken Cox for advocating the use of peat for growing young plants (Letters 9, August) and considers such an act to be a criminal offence. I couldn’t agree more, but he seems to be rather selective in his choice of offenders. What about wind Read more
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NORMAN McNab says “those who question the absolute role of wind are often dismissed as heretics questioning a religious faith”.. People don’t like to be seen as different, particularly when it comes to questioning the “green” faith, so to keep us all in line we are subjected to statistically skewed Read more
The UK continues to significantly boost its world-leading offshore wind manufacturing industry, with over 1,340 jobs created and protected across the Humber region thanks to £266 million of UK government and private sector investment, the government has announced today (Monday 9 August). Offshore wind manufacturers Siemens Gamesa and GRI Renewable Read more