This is very encouraging news on our Petition . The Committee seem supportive. https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/citizen-participation-and-public-petitions-committee/correspondence/2022/pe1864/convtominpfpcw_pe1864.pdf
Highlights • Explored changes in social acceptance in the context of end-of-life. • For many, perceptions of their local wind farm did not change over time. • Contrasts with expectations that familiarity will lead to greater acceptance. • Community support for repowering is greatly mediated by context. • Experiences of Read more
Plans have been lodged with East Ayrshire Council for a new wind farm to the east of Cumnock – with turbines more than 200 metres tall. Green Cat Renewables (GCR) has submitted the plans for the new Drum Wind Farm site, just south of Lugar and Cronberry. The firm’s application Read more
Face facts on renewables I NOTE your report on the claims of so-called climate campaigners (“Appeal to halt £20bn funding for carbon capture technology with ‘legacy of failure’”, March 12). This is a pompous fallacy. Is it possible that our people are so deluded by climate change propaganda that Read more
A FIRM looking to build a wind farm in Peeblesshire says it is confident its plans won’t be grounded despite opposition from Edinburgh Airport. Fred. Olsen Renewables has asked the Scottish Government for permission to put eight turbines on the Holylee Estate, around four kilometres north of Walkerburn. Interested parties Read more
Republican congressmen called Thursday for a halt to all offshore wind power projects amid a spate of whale deaths on the U.S. East Coast in what was likely the beginning of an expected investigation by the GOP-controlled House into the Biden administration’s clean energy plans. https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-congressmen-halt-offshore-wind-212439590.html
SWEDISH MINISTER of Energy and Climate, Romina Pourmokthari says: Sweden has not had a stable and robust el-system (Sweden has c. 4400 wind turbines onshore), and in order to achieve that it is necessary that the energy supply is foreseeable. That is not achievable with energy forms such as wind Read more
Blown away Dr Richard Dixon finishes his anti-nuclear rant by describing nuclear as “repeatedly failing to deliver” (15 March). Yet nuclear and gas consistently provide 58 per cent of our energy, while – if the wind blows – windmills can produce 29 per cent, but nearly nothing when it is Read more