Herald letters

Wind farms are far from green YOU carry an article on the destruction/reconstruction of the Hagshaw wind farm (“Scotland’s first commercial windfarm to be repowered”, The Herald, July 14). I note that the powers that be in SSE Renewables seem to be under the illusion that their efforts in Hagshaw’s Read more

By SAS Volunteer, ago

Scotsman letters

  Hypocrites Climate Camp Scotland has said that the protest camp set up near the Ineos Kinneil terminal in Grangemouth will be Scotland’s biggest protest encampment for a decade (your report, 13 July). Did the demonstrators from India, Netherlands and Ukraine arrive by bike? What about the others? As usual, Read more

By SAS Volunteer, ago

Herald letters

IAN Blackford’s excitedly-trumpeted “Roadmap for a Scottish Green industrial Strategy” (“Ian Blackford: Roadmap for a green industrial future for Scotland”, heraldscotland, July 14) flies in the face of what he said before he was elected. It is simply going to help Big Energy industrialise the Highlands against the will of Read more

By SAS Volunteer, ago

Closing submission on controversial Dumfries and Galloway pylon project may contain offensive material – Daily Record

A closing submission on a controversial pylon project has been blocked from publication by the Scottish Government because it may contain offensive material. SP Energy Networks lodged its summary justifying construction of the Glenlee-Tongland overhead line section of the Kendoon-Tongland Reinforcement (KTR) with the planning and environmental appeals division (DPEA) Read more

By SAS Volunteer, ago

Decarbonisation of the power sector: Government response to the BEIS Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2022–23

The Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy Committee (BEIS) published its Eleventh Report of Session 2022–23, Decarbonisation of the power sector (HC 283), on 28 April 2023. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero supplied a response on 27 June 2023. Responsibility for scrutiny of Government policy on energy has Read more

By SAS Volunteer, ago