Drilling foundations for offshore wind turbines and sound pulses used to prepare for the 900-foot towers may be creating a “death zone” for whales, a former Greenpeace chief claims. https://nypost.com/2023/05/08/not-unreasonable-to-link-whale-deaths-offshore-wind-farm-work-ex-greenpeace-chief-says/?fbclid=IwAR3G0eM00MQCNNRaq1WC9xlYvKrltBoPuyTGp4YQV3mAPAEmVPJYfCQI3yU
Orsted has delayed for a second year its contract to supply consumers with cheap energy from the world’s biggest offshore wind farm and has warned that it could do so again, enabling it to cash in on higher market prices instead. Hornsea Two, comprising 165 turbines about 55 miles off Read more…
Britain’s biggest energy suppliers are refusing to stop buying controversial certificates that allow them to sell tariffs as “100pc green” when they are not. “Green” energy tariffs have typically come at a premium and have been up to £60 more expensive than a standard deal. About 9m households had “green” Read more…
Wind farms waste Neil Bryce is right to mention how wind farm community grants are squandered on various unnecessary projects (Letters, May 6). The money allocated would be best divided up as grants towards the cost of electricity for householders in the affected areas. Here in upper Lauderdale a Read more…
Scotsman letters Just wind Richard Dixon makes much of what he describes as the benevolent enthusiasm of wind farm operators who have “donated” some £25 million to communities that have been impacted by their presence (Sustainable Scotland, 4 May). Let’s be honest, this is no warm-hearted gesture. When set against Read more…
It’s not our electricity NICK Dekker (Letters, May 5) states that “Scotland has been, and still is, a massive net exporter of electricity to England”. He is wrong. The wind turbines in Scotland were manufactured abroad, brought here on foreign ships and erected by foreign labour. These turbines are foreign-owned Read more…
Argyll and Bute Council has added its voice to those objecting to a wind farm application on forested hills between Tarbert and Skipness. Scottish Power Renewables Ltd has submitted an application for a 78-megawatt Earraghail Renewable Energy Development of 13 wind turbines, up to 180 metres high, to the Scottish Read more…
Three Perthshire forests and a wind farm have gone on the market for £130 million. The neighbouring forests, which can be found in the Tay Valley, cover more than 6,530 hectares of land, according to estate agency Savills. The sale will be split onto two lots. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/4361767/perthshire-forests-sale/?fbclid=IwAR0klH2563zvgjDBwkTg9-zO4BiBAdH5C0dV0QH5pocN_ex8hmYtfO31t-o