Onshore Windfarm Roundtable – June 20th, 15:00 – 16:00 Agenda · Opening remarks from Alexander Burnett MSP · Introduction from each attendee. · What changes should be made to planning process for windfarms greater than 50MW? · What compensation should communities get for hosting large onshore windfarms? · Concluding Read more
Dear sir, Good luck to Kate Forbes MSP in her role as ‘ambassador’ for ‘green’ Highlands (Press and Journal June 9th). Her task to protect the environment, biodiversity and the ‘Nature Crisis’ could take some doing, particularly as her own SNP colleagues repeatedly rubber stamp wind farm applications Read more
The entire western world has enumerated and adopted gigantic development targets with this unproven technology, and that without having a scientific basis for the overall scope of consequences for HSE (health, safety and environment). It is almost unbelievable, and we know of no other industry that have been allowed such Read more
Energy strategy Mark Stewart’s article on how we finance our energy transition (Scotsman, 14 June) was very interesting. To some extent he is correct to say: “The availability of risk capital to make manifest changes is still incredibly difficult to secure.” He is not correct if government provided the Read more