A multi-billion pound wind farm off the coast of Norfolk has been given the go-ahead by the government. The Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Farm could power almost two million homes and save three million tonnes of CO2 saved per year, says Vattenfall, the energy company behind it. However, concerns have Read more
Costly proposals to substitute electrically driven heat pumps for gas boilers imply expenditures of a minimum of £15,000 per household, whilst no consideration is given to how expensive electricity is to generate, transport and use, compared to gas. By the resultant energy bills spiralling the energy ratings of many properties Read more
A windfall tax on the energy companies. Taking BP and Shell into public ownership. Putting controls on the price of electricity and persuading us all to turn off the heating as the only way of surviving through the rest of the winter. If you are getting your news about the Read more
Sir, – It’s the 18th Century and farmers and residents in the Highlands and islands are being cleared from the land for sheep and to remove a problematic highland culture. Fast forward to the 21st Century and the few people left in these areas are being cleared for wind farms Read more
An appeals board ruling on the ESB’s wind farm at Derrybrien in south Galway “casts a major doubt over the legality of the project”, according to Loughrea solicitor Dan Shiels. Mr Shiels was commenting after An Bord Pleanála refused substitute consent to an ESB subsidiary, Gort Windfarms Ltd, for the Read more
A White-tailed Eagle which had been fitted with a GPS tracking device as part of a monitoring programme has died after being hit by the blade of a wind turbine in Flevoland, The Netherlands. As reported in Nature Today, the bird was one of 15 young eagles born in the Read more
A wee loch in Argyll is at the heart of a proposed new energy storage facility that will help guarantee continuous power from renewable sources such as wind farms as the country moves away from fossil fuels. Project Balliemeanoch will turn Lochan Airigh into a headpond containing 58 million cubic Read more
Highland Council members say they are being “taken for fools” following an amended planning application for a wind farm at Glenferness, near Nairn. Scottish ministers gave consent for Cairn Duhie wind farm in 2017, despite objections from Highland Council, Moray Council and local campaign groups. The consented scheme was for Read more