Fishers have reacted with concern to the ScotWind announcement of 17 lease options to develop Scottish offshore wind farms. Responding to Crown Estate Scotland (CES)’s big reveal, when it named the projects in line to deliver a sea change in offshore renewable energy output, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) warned Read more…
The following article was written by John Campbell QC by way of an explanation of the Easter Tolmauds court decision which we posted last week. It is attached again for those who missed it. In compliance with its statutory duty following complaints, a Local Authority issued an Abatement Notice under Read more…
BP, Shell and SSE Renewables have been selected to build the next generation of Scottish offshore wind farms. Crown Estate Scotland has today announced the outcome of its application process for ScotWind leasing. A total of 17 projects have been selected out of a total of 74 applications, and have Read more…
Giant killers I note Graham Bruce’s excellent “sleeping giants” letter of 13 January. Garvary Wind Farm’s 37 turbines will indeed stop his wonderful view of golden eagles and ospreys. Just of late we had a spectacular view of the white tailed sea eagle majestically flying up the Kyle of Sutherland. Read more…