A new report shows that Scotland’s Wild Land Areas are being steadily reduced by development, from hill tracks and windfarms to forestry and micro hydro schemes; yet the Scottish Government’s draft national planning policy fails to address the loss of this priceless resource. Stronger protection for wild landscape is urgently Read more…
Polly Toynbee is so right (The Tories railed against ‘green crap’. Why trust them to solve the energy crisis now?, 15 March), but it is unfair to describe those opposing gigantic windfarms and solar farms as “shire nimbys”. There are many environmentalists who don’t feel such massive industrialisation of Read more…
A coalition of green energy organisations and suppliers is calling on the chancellor to move environmental levies off household bills and into general taxation to help ease the pain of soaring gas prices. Measures offered by the Treasury so far “do not go far enough to address a severe increase Read more…
Attached is our response to the NPF4 consultation. NPF4