Who really benefits from the pylons? Hoorah for Norman McNab’s assertion that we already have too many wind pylons, and more particularly that “sadly many foreign venture capitalists and wealthy landowners are on a win-win ticket while trivial financial benefit and damage is Scotland’s reward” (Letters, October 13). I Read more…
SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies have announced all Vestas turbines at the 1075MW Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Scotland are now fully operational. The wind farm comprises 114 V164-10.0MW turbines and is situated 27 km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth. Seagreen is Read more…
Costly renewables At last Joyce McMillan accepts that ‘independence is irrelevant until we fix the climate’ (Perspective, October 13). However, it appears that SNP supporters have yet to recognise that ‘Scotland has no massive energy wealth’ since electricity is three times more expensive than gas, hence not only is Read more…
Island communities could get cut-price electricity from locally owned wind farms as part of plan for a new nationalised clean energy company. But Torcuil Crichton, the party’s Western Isles candidate, has admitted the task of ditching fossil fuels in favour of renewables will “make building HS2 look like a Hornby Read more…
Wind and solar rent-seekers are laughing all the way to the bank, with your money. Subsidising wind and solar operators under the mantle of reaching mythical net-zero carbon oxide gas emissions targets comes with a staggering cost: wrecked communities, wrecked environments and wrecked economies. The cult that drives it all, Read more…
Twynholm Community Council is to hold a public meeting on a proposal for a wind farm development partly sited within its boundaries. Seven turbines up to 180m high, plus a network of connecting and access roads, are being envisaged under developers Wind2’s Lairdmannoch Energy Park, The project also includes a Read more…
Aileen’s second reply to Elspeth Russell is in the Herald today + another one from Norman McNab Just the tip of the iceberg IN response to Elspeth Russell (Letters, October 11, Would you rather live beside a turbine or a mine) can I say first of all that she is Read more…
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