A NATION’S riches, spent to meet vital national needs of all kinds, including its people’s welfare, depends on its natural assets. Petroleum products, vital for so many valid purposes, may be recoverable by fracking, as was promised in Rishi Sunak’s pre-election manifesto as a candidate for UK Government leadership. Mr Read more
Nicola Sturgeon has come under fire after secretly altering an official record of her Holyrood speech after being caught out lying about renewable energy. The First Minister was one of three key SNP figures found to have made misleading statements about Scotland’s energy capabilities.https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-secretly-changes-holyrood-28353336?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
For years they have been maligned as pen-pushers, bureaucrats far from the front line of public service. But since 2009 the number of planners has numbers have been cut by a third and their funding by even more, just as their workload exploded. Local and national politicians have chosen to Read more
A revised plan for a wind farm at Watten will be put to the public at two new consultation events next month. EDF Renewables UK has made a number of changes to its initial proposals for the site 3km south-west of the village. The number of turbines has been reduced Read more
Moray Council’s Legal Manager put it well as she announced the cost to her Council of a recent two-windfarm public inquiry. As she announced a bill north of £150,000, not including her own and colleagues’ time, she said “We can’t compromise our principles, but we will have to look at Read more
The Scottish Government has been urged to follow Rishi Sunak‘s lead in restricting the development of new onshore wind farms in Scotland by a campaign group. Scotland Against Spin is currently campaigning for a new system for turbines being built to be introduced in Scotland which would see communities get Read more
Our Petition to the Scottish Parliament must now succeed. https://www.parliament.scot/get-involved/petitions/view-petitions/pe1864-increase-the-ability-of-communities-to-influence-planning-decisions-for-onshore-windfarms No longer will Scottish rural communities tolerate being treated as second class citizens. It is time the Scottish Government did the right thing and gave us parity with England. They tell us they want to give more power to Read more
I sympathise greatly with Linda Dunk (letters 21 October) as I would with anyone faced with a wind farm development on their doorstep but her opinion that 250m onshore turbines are unacceptable “except in the remotest of locations with low population density” is unfortunate to say the least. Does Read more