In July, National Grid warned that the scheduled closure this year of the two old nuclear power stations Hunterston B and Dungeness B will make winter electricity supply difficult. In the world’s fifth-largest economy this is unacceptable. The Government is obsessed with an impossible zero carbon agenda which will make Read more…
SSE Renewables has poured concrete for the first turbine base for the 440MW Viking Energy wind farm on the Scottish island of Shetland. Eight ready-mix lorries carried the concrete to the turbine site from two batching plants set up nearby, each of which can mix 50 cubic metres an hour. Read more…
By Scott Wright Deputy Business Editor Herald A CAMPBELTOWN wind tower manufacturer, which served the onshore and offshore energy sectors, has collapsed into administration after succumbing to deteriorating market conditions. CS Wind (UK) Limited, based at the Machrihanish Business Park was founded in 2016 following the acquisition of Wind Towers Read more…
On 5th September 2021, the Times printed an article under the heading “Thousands more wind turbines planned for Scots countryside”i. For those of us who feel that the Scottish countryside is already overburdened with ugly industrial scale wind farms (or, as the article puts it, is already “one giant wind Read more…
Key points: John Zakula and Noel Uren from Tarwin Lower claim noise from the Bald Hills wind farm reduced their enjoyment of their properties The wind farm’s operator says it’s taken measures to mitigate noise, and the level of noise was reasonable for a rural area One of the plaintiffs Read more…
In today’s P&J
The UK has fired up an old coal power plant to meet its electricity needs. Warm, still autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while soaring prices have made it too costly to rely on gas. As a result, National Grid ESO – Read more…
The Scotsman reports “Climate change is blamed for seabird breeding numbers falling by 50 per cent” (4 September). At the same time, we are carpeting almost the entire country, plus much of our pristine seascapes with what has been described as the new “apex pedator” – hugely-destructive, lethal, industrial Read more…