NatureScot, a body funded mainly by the Scottish Government, and responsible for advising Scottish ministers on all matters relating to the natural heritage, have withdrawn their objection to an application for an extension to a wind farm in Sutherland because the area can no longer be classed as wilderness. Read more…
Nearly half of all the UK’s offshore wind capacity is owned by state-owned or majority state-owned foreign entities, according to new analysis exclusively shared with Sky News. https://news.sky.com/story/nearly-half-of-uks-offshore-wind-capacity-owned-by-state-owned-foreign-entities-analysis-shows-12705500?fbclid=IwAR20KEUmomRran46lNaa4tGDMtz53gUnP_vgEDxwBZAuPCBTA47pFl_M9fc
The plan would make the country more dependent on imported gas, not less – certainly in the medium term For as long as the biggest emitters are still pumping out CO2, the UK’s contribution is minuscule. Sir Keir said the aim was to make the UK self-sufficient in electricity Read more…
In today’s Sunday Post
Finnish first? Laura Waddell seems in awe of Finland (“UK may envy Finnish heat pump revolution as winter bites”, Perspective, 22 September). So in awe that she did not say anything about the costs of heat pumps or reveal that the Green/SNP-dominated Scottish Government will ban gas boilers in Read more…
Wind farms are a sick joke WIND turbines as sources of energy are wind speed-dependent electricity generators typifying the wastefulness of the UK’s futile attempts to avert the world’s risks of dangerous climate changes. As proportions of our used electricity supplies, wind turbines contribute percentages ranging between single figures Read more…
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng quietly lifts de facto ban on new onshore wind farms He vows to ‘unlock the potential of onshore wind’ in his ’emergency Budget’ Move is likely to anger Tory MPs who are opposed to new turbines in England https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11242993/Kwasi-Kwarteng-quietly-lifts-ban-new-onshore-wind-farms-Chancellor-sets-clash-Tory-MPs.html
Leithenwater Wind Energy Hub – Pre Application The construction and operation of a new wind farm (Leithenwater Wind Energy Hub) comprising up to 13 wind turbines each up to a maximum of 200m to turbine blade tip and ancillary items. The Proposed Development is located 4.5km north-east of Peebles. https://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationDetails.aspx?cr=ECU00004619