SHIP safety concerns have been raised as the concession, which allows cheap foreign labour to replace British workers in servicing Scotland’s green revolution, comes to an end. The Herald on Sunday can reveal that the Home Office says there will be no extension of the Offshore Wind Workers Concession (OWWC) Read more…
All the hype by government and the media about reducing CO2 emissions to ‘save the planet’ doesn’t overcome the fact that there is no consistent correlation between increasing atmospheric CO2 levels with enhanced global temperatures. Any dumb scientist can clearly see this when they look at a graph recording the Read more…
In the bustle of the brewery shop in Aviemore, Sam Faircliff is trying her best to stay positive. It’s hard, she admits, because for months she’s been suffering from a sense that politicians and civil servants in distant Edinburgh are intent on putting her out of business. “They’re just not Read more…
Populations of a diving seabird plummeted by more than 90 per cent after offshore wind farms were built, a study has found. Data from German scientists looked at the number of red-throated loons in the North Sea before and after the installation of five offshore wind farms. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/population-diving…/
A renewable energy developer is inviting people to find out more about its proposal for a four-turbine wind farm in Stirling. Drummarnock Wind Farm will sit in front of the existing Craigengelt turbines and could generate up to 30 MW of electricity each year – enough to meet the needs Read more…
The Scottish Seabird Centre has formally registered an objection with Marine Scotland to SSE Renewables’ proposal to build one of the largest offshore wind developments in the world in the outer Firth of Forth. Berwick Bank, which would be located about 38 kilometres off the East Lothian coast, could generate Read more…
Large scale developments, such as the proposed Windfarms in Orkney, both onshore and offshore, require to produce environmental impact reports. That is an essential component of the planning process. But new work done by researchers at the University of East Anglia has pointed out the limitations in these assessments.
Scars on landscape Dick Webster (Letters, 6 April) is correct that greening our economy will ruin our landscape, and make the rich even richer. Cheap overhead power cabling is inevitable because the national grid was not designed to accept small power generation from distant locations, and the proposed overhead line Read more…