Researchers recorded deformities in lobsters in a controlled study They exposed eggs to electromagnetic fields similar to underwater cables When the eggs hatched, deformities were recorded three times more often https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10770107/Lobsters-deformed-left-unable-swim-wind-farm-power-cables.html
Turbine terror With the recent prolonged drought, The Scotsman article “Tinderbox Scotland” highlights the risk of Muirburn and raging wildfires on peat-covered moorland (29 April). What politicians, planners and local councillors seem to be blissfully unaware of is that wind turbines pose a significant, deadly, and growing threat to Read more…
A COMPANY owned by the Chinese government lobbied a Scottish minister to reduce the rent it will pay at a future wind farm in the North Sea, The Herald can reveal. In a letter last August, Red Rock Power told Energy Minister Michael Matheson that rental terms at the proposed Read more…
Statkraft to submit ‘more robust’ application for 12-turbine Ackron Wind Farm. The renewable energy company behind a proposed wind farm near Melvich has withdrawn its planning application and vowed to submit a new, “more robust” one https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/statkraft-to-submit-more-robust-application-for-12-turbine-273814/
ANDREW McKie’s suggestion of a simple way for government to tackle the cost-of-living crisis (“There is one simple way for government to tackle this awful cost-of-living crisis”, The Herald, April 26) prompts me to suggest a simple way of vastly reducing energy cost and somewhat reducing global warming both indirectly Read more…
SSE Renewables Plan for an experimental hydrogen production hub at an East Sutherland wind farm has been slammed as “horrifying” by a local resident. https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/i-find-it-absolutely-terrifying-brora-residents-voice-fea-273699/?fbclid=IwAR2zOk6rGAENcWxdFmngNn8-8Bp664lsX4y75Xiqi2fmDN8Od_QDn5v89vg
London-based Energiekontor wanted to build six turbines with a tip height of 149.9 metres near Dunbeath, but its application – which attracted almost 200 objections – was rejected by Highland Council last June. Objectors raised concerns about the impact on cultural heritage assets and archaeology, residential amenity, road users, tourists Read more…
Ian Moir is correct in highlighting the horrendous costs of Net Zero and The Green Revolution for the man and woman in the street (Letters, 26 April). Politicians earning – sorry make that “getting” – huge salaries, gold-plated pensions and expenses all paid for by taxpayers have no idea Read more…