September 2022

Squeezing “every last cubic inch of gas” from the North Sea, re-starting fracking, rejecting windfarms in favour of fossil fuels – the policies espoused by Jacob Rees-Mogg, against a backdrop of rising energy prices, form a clear indication of how the new business secretary will view his brief. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/sep/06/record-of-climate-denialism-indicates-how-rees-mogg-will-handle-energy-brief?fbclid=IwAR22FaM8jY9UEWSgMpNOXQm87SfKXpgIGNVWf0fSZui7KkP7I32Bp1GGe5w

The UK is facing an unprecedented energy crisis with a £100billion bailout set to blow the country’s bank balance – and all the while renewables firms are finding huge profits literally blowing in the wind https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/uk-news/great-wind-farm-rip-off-27889339

A renewable energy company has voiced disappointment after Highland councillors added their objections to controversial plans for 14 new turbines near Loch Ness, triggering a public inquiry. Plans to extend the existing 23-turbine Corriegarth Wind Farm at Gorthleck to the south of the loch have been submitted to the Scottish Read more…

Development of new wind farms in remote, wild areas should be halted, the National Trust for Scotland has said. The Trust says it recognises the need for renewable energy but argues this should not come at the expense of wild land. It is calling for protection of wild land to Read more…

Newlands Hill Wind Energy Hub – Pre Application The Application Site is located 6km southeast of Gifford on the northern edge of the Lammermuir Hills within East Lothian. 17x200m wind turbines https://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationDetails.aspx?cr=ECU00004603

Mike McKinnell (Turbines Ahoy, letters 2 September) needs to get out a bit more and travel further afield if he thinks the extent of wind farm development is extreme in West Lothian which has a density of 0.154 wind turbines per km2.   East Renfrewshire for example, is much worse affected Read more…

Representatives for Shetland’s fishing industry say they are being ignored in the drive to develop new wind farms off the islands, and took aim at the latest ScotWind clearance round.  https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/wind/uk-wind/scotwind/441424/shetland-fishing-industry-flung-by-the-wayside-in-rush-for-offshore-wind/?fbclid=IwAR101_YxVClyNRjCl59C2kp3SL3nKutgeXvxvd9Fd4NCcygaq7jKsZ1d-yY

THE SCOTTISH Government is facing legal action after an 11-year breach of international law through a failure to have a public right of challenge over decisions that would damage the nation’s precious environment, landscape and wildlife. A coalition of campaign groups from Planning Democracy, Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, Friends Read more…