Campaigners fighting a planned new power line in the Highlands say they are losing trust in SSEN and want the Scottish Government to intervene. The power company is proposing a new 400KV overhead line from Spittal in Caithness to Beauly and on to Peterhead. It has stressed it is considering Read more…
I’m very keen on sustainable living and protecting the planet, but I’m wondering if there is a more radical Green agenda afoot nationally than just what is happening with Edinburgh City Council as per Jill Stephenson’s letter (5 June). Look at the evidence: tourism minister scrapped, ferries to the Read more…
Developers behind the controversial Armadale wind farm plans are “content” that proposed changes to the scheme address concerns raised locally. Brookfield Renewable UK has submitted an amended application for nine turbines on a site close to the north coast village. It had originally consulted on a 23-turbine farm in 2020, Read more…
By Allister Thomas A Kincardine wind turbine, which sits just 10 miles off Aberdeen, is being towed hundreds of miles to Rotterdam for scheduled maintenance because the UK doesn’t have facilities to service it. The KIN-02 turbine is part of the Kincardine floating wind farm, until recently the largest project Read more…
A RECOMMENDATION that Highland Council ‘raise an objection’ to the planned Garvary Wind Farm – earmarked to go on land 4.5km south of Lairg – has been described as “disappointing” by the scheme’s development manager. James Baird commented after the local authority made public its report on the 25-turbine wind Read more…
Press and Journal letters Our Press and Journal is again depicting daily the horrors and danger of wildfires, this time at Cannich. What politicians, planners and local councillors, seem to be blissfully unaware of, is that Wind Turbines pose a significant, deadly, and growing threat to wildlife and human habitation. Read more…