Councillor Adam McVey in his article ‘Why firms should sign up to Edinburgh climate accord’ is full of rhetoric but short on the council taxpayers’ costs involved for Edinburgh’s miniscule share of world emissions (Scotland on Sunday, December 26). Scotland has 0.13 per cent so Edinburgh 0.00001 per cent? Then Read more…
A senior figure at NatureScot expressed concern there was no “coherent strategy” at the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency on how to tackle the decline of some of Scotland’s most precious natural sites. Internal emails obtained by The Ferret, using freedom of information law, reveal discussions between NatureScot staff ahead of Read more…
VOLATILITY OF THE ENERGY MARKET WITH nuclear making up 20% of Britain’s power supply, the retirement of the Hunterston B nuclear power station is inevitably going to create further volatility in the UK energy market, given the strain it will put on the grid by increasing reliance on gas at Read more…
IN THE dying months of last year, a perfect calm often descended upon the UK. It meant the wind didn’t blow very much. It meant the windmills didn’t turn. It meant electricity generators had to burn much more gas and operate their remaining gas power stations flat out to keep Read more…
Power station Scotland’s Hunterston B nuclear power station was shut down forever on 7 January. It has provided clean electricity for 46 years. Of course Lang Banks of WWF Scotland and formerly chief executive with wind turbine PR organisation Scottish Renewables has to get in on the act and imply Read more…
It has been heartening of late to read so many letters pointing out the failings of wind power and why we should never have over-deployed on weather-dependent energy. If only the independent engineers and economists had been heeded over this last decade, then perhaps we wouldn’t be in the current Read more…
The Scottish Government has been urged to change their rules on wind farms to stop developers running amok and flooding the country’s beautiful landscape with turbines. Currently, developers can re-appeal to the government if the local authority rejects their application to build a new site. The SNP have been criticised Read more…
Fred. Olsen Renewables has applied to the Scottish Government for permission to develop a 17-turbine wind farm on the Dava Moor. The plans for Lethen Wind Farm are 10 kilometres north west of Grantown and have been the focus of community consultation since early last year. The company said the Read more…