A warning has been issued to the public as debris from a wind turbine fire may wash up along the Norfolk coast. A specialist operations team has been brought in to search for any materials that may have come ashore after the fire off Great Yarmouth. The Scroby Sands Wind Read more…
ARDROSSAN’S wind farm could be here to stay – until at least the 2040s. The first step has now been taken on the way to increasing the lifespan of the wind farm on Busbie Muir – after a planning application was lodged with North Ayrshire Council. The application requested an Read more…
Highlands vision When Sir Keith Starmer outlined his hopes to “marvel at the continued allure of the Scottish Highlands” (Scotsman, 15 August) he was obviously unaware that the SNP plans to increase the wind farm capacity in Scotland to around 60GW which, with the requisite plethora of super-sized pylons, will Read more…
In The New Map, Yergin sets out the reality that past energy transitions, like the one in the UK from wood to coal that began in the 1500s, have taken place across a century or more and have never ended with the former energy source being abandoned. In fact, the Read more…
Unfair tax I agree with Ian Steele (Letters, 15 August). The Scottish Government consultation about a proposed, eye watering increase in council tax for bands E-H is nothing more than the usual tick-box exercise. Many old houses are in the higher tax bands but those properties are the ones which Read more…
A 15-mile overhead cable connecting a wind farm above Archiestown to the national grid at Keith will go ahead. But one councillor has criticised the process as being an “affront to local democracy”. The line will link the Elchies Rothes III wind farm to the Blackhillock substation. Moray Council objected Read more…
UK electricity regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved SSEN Transmission’s proposals to upgrade the grid in Argyll and Kintyre, Scotland. In its minded-to approve consultation on the company’s Final Needs Case, Ofgem has recognised the clear need for the Argyll and Kintyre Reinforcement Strategy, which SSEN Transmission said will secure future Read more…
You might be interested in responding to this consultation if you are living in a rural area and face a huge rise in Council tax (Bands E-H). We have responded as individuals using the industrialisation of the countryside and the effect it has on our residential amenity as a reason Read more…