RECENTLY I wrote about the latest nonsense to emerge from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Its impact on public policy over the years cannot be overstated. Most, if not all, of the hugely expensive and damaging policies now being pursued originated from the CCC, or were driven forward by Read more
Police officers travelling with the convoys to the Viking windfarm site are scaring people by ordering them off the road aggressively, a meeting heard on Tuesday night. Viking Community Liaison Group chairman Andrew Archer said he was “surprised” to hear from one person who asked if the police could be Read more
(Bloomberg) — The Netherlands heavily relies on wind turbines in its energy transition — at the expense of thousands of birds that get killed by fast-spinning blades. Now officials say they have a solution to spare some of the migratory animals. In a project in conducted with the University of Read more
A different way to do our energy Alan Carmichael (April 19) refers to Scotland’s wind energy possibly becoming the “Saudi Arabia” of renewables. He is obviously a victim of SNP spin and unaware that Saudi Arabia will produce abundant energy from solar at a quarter of the cost of wind. Read more
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
Do the maths Should the proposed pumped storage facility at Coire Glas Power Station be approved? It will take many years to complete at a cost somewhere north of £1.5 billion. The proposers, SSE, are asking the UK government to provide the funding so we must look at this Read more