The No Ring of Steel campaign group is fighting two more huge wind farms in the Strath Oykel region of Sutherland as SNP/Green ministers ramp up their zeal for turbines https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/comment/protecting-scotlands-beautiful-wild-countryside-28960942?fbclid=IwAR0OguEBrwRPmJAJH0JgGG2CIXN6Jd6m3nWMcL_0OK9Mr_T4pg6DGxT5iXw
SCOTLAND’S wild landscape is set to be hit by hundreds of super-wind turbines being proposed across the country that are up to four times the height of the original schemes. The Herald on Sunday can reveal that there are at least 14 major wind farm proposals that have bypassed local Read more
Wind’s downsides It would appear that Barry Hughes (Letters, 12 January) has not factored in the danger from wind power that arises when a lack of wind results in no output to provide light and heat for schools, hospitals and care homes, a problem that more than offsets difficulties Read more
Very helpful for anyone fighting a wind farm at the moment. Wind stats January 2023-4 Policy 11 – Energy-1
Landscapes around the Cairngorms and in Fife could be “hammered with windfarms” under fresh Scottish Government energy plans. Leading mountaineering journalist and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has warned there is a “great danger” the Cairngorms National Park could soon become “ring-fenced” with turbines. While Fife-based Scotland Against Spin chairman Graham Lang Read more
Changes to the planning system to be introduced by the SNP-Green administration will relax the rules for new and expanded wind farms, which many campaigners say are already too loose. The final draft of the Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), said to be the “most important” in 75 years, will Read more
The bid to have the height of turbines at a windfarm development in the Glenkens increased is heading to Holyrood. Energiekontor UK has lodged an appeal with the Scottish Government over its planned development at Glenshimmeroch near Dalry. It comes after the council failed to make a decision to increase Read more
I attach two more spreadsheets. They represent the position on S36 applications and scoping response as at 31st December although the application on Scawd Law (which was lodged just before Xmas) wasn’t available to view until early this year. although I don’t normally keep earlier versions after they have been Read more