The last 10 years have seen unprecedented growth in the contribution of wind power to the UK’s energy needs. Thousands of wind turbines have been erected both onshore and offshore, on sites that have been heralded as the bedrock of the UK’s bid to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Politicians Read more
Your editorial (14 October) agrees with the First Minister’s warning that Scotland must both ensure “people and communities are not left behind” in the rapid 24-year transition from fossil fuels and at the same time provide energy to heat our homes, run our hospitals, get us to work and drive Read more
Rogart Community Council has decided to object to a planned small wind farm in a bid to highlight a wider transport issue. Members agreed to register an objection with the local authority to the Strath Tirry Wind Farm, north of Dalmichie, Lairg. The wind farm, comprising four turbines measuring 135m Read more
Please follow the link and sign the Petition to help the people of Wales. It adds weight to our own Petition to the Scottish Parliament and vice versa. The current system unfairly favours developers who have access to legal, planning and financial expertise. Individuals / communities don’t have the Read more
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that if she is elected president next year she will end all subsidies for renewable energy and will take down France’s wind turbines. Le Pen, who will be the candidate of the Rassemblement National party in the April vote, made it to Read more
First coined almost 100 years ago in the United States, the phrase that success in property is about three things – “location, location, location”- has certainly stood the test of time. By David Alexander But the 2020’s are different from the 1920s in so many ways and in the residential Read more
SIR – The National Grid’s online data for the electricity generated by Britain’s 11,000 wind turbines showed that, in the year up to mid-September, they contributed an average of only 17.6 per cent of what the country required. Sometimes the daily or even weekly rate was as low as 3 Read more
BORIS Johnson has been warned over-reliance on “unreliable regimes” such as China for its energy supplies will leave the UK vulnerable to precisely the sort of price volatility the nation is currently experiencing. And former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith also fears the consequences of Britain’s dependence on Beijing Read more