BABCOCK Marine want to build a wind turbine at Rosyth Dockyard that would be 149 metres tall. It would provide electricity from a renewable source, with an expected carbon dioxide saving of 2,384 tonnes a year, but would dominate the skyline and be visible from up to 20 miles away. Read more…
Conservative watchdog groups ran a guerrilla-style ad campaign on the New Jersey shore for Earth Day, drawing attention to a surge in whale deaths amid the growth of offshore wind farms. https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/conservative-watchdogs-highlight-alarming-surge-in-whale-deaths-as-wind-farms-grow-off-ny-nj-coasts/?fbclid=IwAR0h1ZMqThy7BxSa5lcae7yPK0LQQV2JemMMM7SBTZ4L0sNdotXnFZ-SvVM
Both Government and Opposition want us to decarbonise our electricity system and spend even more billions on renewable wind and solar technologies. They justify this on the grounds of low CO2 emissions, even though the supposed low costs have been shown to be a fantasy. However, CO2 is not the Read more…