Angry about the march of giant turbines across Scotland? Then read this jaw-dropping exposé of how big businesses are burnishing their green credentials at huge cost to consumers By Jonathan Brocklebank Over the next few months Scotland’s latest steel and carbon fibre forest will begin to rise from the sea. Read more…
Councillors have gone against planning officer advice and opposed proposals for a major wind farm in southern Scotland. They had been recommended not to object to the 60-turbine Scoop Hill scheme a few miles south east of Moffat. However, they voted to oppose the project on the grounds of its Read more…
Nine years after the Scottish Government rejected the controversial Allt Duine wind farm by Kincraig, a new application to develop a site west of the village has been published. Ampyr Energy and ESB Asset Development UK, in partnership with four Highland estates are ‘currently investigating the potential their land offers Read more…
SCOTTISHPOWER’S owner is to plough £4.3 billion in Scotland to invest in renewables and networks that connect wind farms with energy users. The investment is included in a record €10bn that Spanish-owned Iberdrola plans to spend in the UK by the end of 2026. Iberdrola reckons Scottishpower can play Read more…
This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest.
Continued delays to the updated climate change plan and further slippage in climate policies mean that the Climate Change Committee no longer believes that the Scottish Government will meet its 2030 target. Scotland has a statutory 2030 goal to reduce emissions by 75%, while there is no comprehensive strategy for Read more…
Utility SSE Renewables has scrapped a proposed electrolyser project at the subsidy-free Gordonbush onshore wind farm in Scotland, after failing to secure government payments for green hydrogen production. SSE had been one of the losers in the UK government’s first “hydrogen allocation round” (HAR1) for subsidies per kilogram of H2 Read more…
Further to our Call for Action we have received some further information from the Scottish Government. As you know, our Petition to the Scottish Parliament calls on them to urge the Scottish Government to adopt English planning legislation for the determination of onshore wind farm developments (which would allow all Read more…