THE discussion about renewable energy on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg this week (BBC1, April 21) left me so frustrated that yet another politician, this time Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Shabana Mahmood, missed the point on the matter of baseload. She rightly pointed out that no power is Read more…
Wind farm objectors have claimed that if Caithness was a ship the crew would be plotting a mutiny, such is the sense of injustice within some communities over the scale of renewable energy developments in the county.” https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/swarclett-group-in-mutiny-claim-over-caithness-energy-proj-348457/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR18OgDf56yEl2iVhVjEIFgpATm_X8cwmUG-FJhm_lK8t9JcNOwEdCqRZdQ_aem_AfWEUbZLNAFaLIwc6_BWUqdENFJix12uMXiXkoFhSzh5kRyy6dXwx7EMYpT4f5pprV4nCeJm_US2TcaU5j8UOfrl
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If ever there was a case of cynical politicians making rods for their own (or their successors’) backs, this was it. Years of empty sloganising and ‘wha’s like us’ target-setting had just collided with a word which rarely features in the nationalist lexicon: “reality”. But how much time, money and Read more…
THERE was a time when Christopher Moran visited his Scottish estate most weekends. This scenic tranche of upland Banffshire was his ‘sanity’, the multi-millionaire financier used to say. ‘I come here for the solitude. In London I can work 24 hours a day. But here, I unwind.’ When he and Read more…
A Caithness farmer has warned that two wind turbines will be “a blight on a valued landscape” and will upset his livestock if they are allowed to go ahead. Ronald Sandison, of Smerral Farm, is among a group of residents in the Bowertower area opposing Swarclett Wind Farm, which Read more…
There is a pattern in the SNP’S introduction of new laws in Scotland. What happens is that a minority pressure group divorced from the commonsense thinking of the overwhelming majority of Scots comes up with a demand and convinces indolent politicians that it will be great and good. We have Read more…
A WIND farm being built in the Scottish Borders is set to become Britain’s largest people-owned renewable energy project. The site at Whitelaw Brae near Tweedsmuir has been purchased by Ripple Energy in an agreement with developers BayWa r.e. However, Ripple is set to manage the site as a cooperative Read more…