February 6, 2022

A critical piece of infrastructure, or an unnecessary scar on the landscape? The upgraded power line stretching 137 miles from Beauly to Denny near Falkirk still divides opinion. Fifteen years ago, on February 6 2017, an inquiry opened into the proposal, outlining the development-versus-environment battle raging around it. Scotland’s longest Read more…

  DANGER OF THE WIND FARMS IN response to several of your correspondents (Letters, January 30), I do not approve of wind farms. I am very much aware of the danger to bats, insects and birds, as well as the threat to peat from the concrete bases. Apparently bats explode Read more…

  Nuclear option Rolls-Royce have been making safe nuclear reactors for our submarines for over 50 years. Now they are upscaling that technology to produce factory-built small modular reactors each of which will generate 470MW of zero carbon electricity for at least 60 years. Already the Roll-Royce SMR consortium have Read more…