Wind energy is an environmental destruction machine, warns veteran center-left columnist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist block satellite countries in 1989, the West stood in awe, amazed by the environmental and economic wasteland left behind by the inefficient collective socialist system. But since then, green Read more
Important and welcome information in regard to ‘Time limited consent’ (most windarms). Normally, it is stipulated in planning conditions that development must commence within 3 years of award of consent.(Occasionally an appplicant can get an increase to 5 years awarded by Scottish Ministers or a Local Authority) Commencement of a Read more
COUNCIL chiefs will object to plans for a proposed wind farm on the Kintyre Peninsula, it has been decided. The Scottish Government, on behalf of Energiekontor, has consulted with Argyll and Bute Council on plans for the facility south of Campbeltown. But councillors expressed concerns over the visual impact, along Read more
One objection of Dr Richard Dixon (Scotsman 22 May) to small modular nuclear reactors (SMRS of 300 MW base load capacity) apparently is that they would take up the area of all of two football pitches (about 3 acres). The equivalent in wind turbines of 2MW (load factor about 30 Read more
National Grid is to install as many as 6,000 electricity pylons across the English countryside as part of plans to invest £31bn in the nation’s transmission networks. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/23/bill-payers-to-fund-30bn-net-zero-overhaul-of-national-grid/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Td8Qv54DxlhhIl7pZ22eLX-PBvKbb3GjQW1cUrTYZbXfPwsUFQ621L_U_aem_AUIjYC2A-Y_-Gv6qvqyw-BOmgeZwmTbCVMvEX0nlAK2yYAoGe0RhhDJ4Dzw18khEu0RyKyVWaQHKbez_BuWTx36e
Scotland will need to install one new offshore turbine every day to stop jobs being lost in the Just Transition, a new report has found. The paper by academics at Robert Gordon University’s Energy Transition Institute warned that “political choices” risked hampering the UK’s prospect of retaining industry jobs and Read more
Campaigners are calling for an Edinburgh-based firm to be excluded from future rounds of renewable leasing amid concerns about the impact a project by its parent company is having on critically-endangered orangutans. Mighty Earth has written to Scottish Net Zero and Energy Secretary Mairi McAllan claiming that Red Rock Power Read more
NUCLEAR power is the answer to our energy problems and ticks every box. So it is wonderful news that plans for future UK power provision for what will be our 60 million-plus population include a nuclear power plant in Scotland. At last. It will be clean energy that does not Read more