Highland Council says new wind farm plans for south of Nairn show “insufficient regard to preserving natural beauty of the countryside” and has called on members to raise an objection. Planning officials cited as well the impact the development could have on the surrounding area, which is nearing saturation point Read more…
Following the Round table meeting for Communities at the Scottish Parliament in June organised by Alexander Burnett MSP, SAS followed up with letters to all the MSPs who attended the Round table and also those who took part in the debate which followed. We have received a response (below) from Read more…
Harvie playing King Canute TRUST in politicians is tenuous at best but Patrick Harvie is stretching this to incredulity. Instead of backing down over heat pumps he is continuing on the offensive (“Harvie calls on UK Government to cut cost of running heat pump”, The Herald, August 11). He Read more…
Work on a new wind farm in Caithness is set to get under way next month – more than two-and-a-half years after the development was rejected by Highland Council because of its visual impact. Renewable energy company RWE was given the go-ahead for its Camster II Wind Farm, located between Read more…
As things stand the ‘net zero’ policies adopted by many governments, including those of the US and UK, are doomed. Professor Kelly, a Cambridge University engineer, has shown that the cost for the UK could exceed £3 trillion. A lack of key resources makes net zero by 2050 impossible at Read more…
Scottish Government Reporter will visit large areas of East Lothian countryside which have been earmarked for compulsory sale to a windfarm operator as part of an investigation into the bid. The proposals by SSE Renewables could see one of the world’s biggest windfarms bring energy onto land near Skateraw, on Read more…
A wind turbine collapsed in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, on August 7, with residents reporting that the structure had been emitting loud noise for a week prior to its fall. Video filmed by Thomas Schröder shows a rapidly spinning wind turbine slant downwards before snapping and falling to the ground. The blades Read more…
A letter in the Scotsman today in response to Aileen’s yesterday on sham polls. Poll position Poll trickery indeed (Letters, 8 August). Well said to Aileen Jackson, particularly her last point. Apart from the footling numbers of people actually asked in such surveys, which are then headlined and reported Read more…