I watched Wednesday’s Holyrood debate on the attempt to railroad miles of pylons and square miles of substations through north-east Scotland and lack of consultation with campaign groups. The night before SSEN didn’t turn up at a Stonehaven Community Council meeting on the topic and neither did local MSP and Read more
Two letters in the Herald today in response to our letter on Wednesday from our Chairman Graham Lang and the other from Sarah Burchell. Energy Strategy is not achievable THE letters from Graham Lang and Sarah Burchell (January 22) were timely. As I write (January 22), the 30GW of installed Read more
The UK Labour government, led by a former human rights lawyer, has now announced that it is going to ride roughshod over the human rights of anyone objecting to national infrastructure projects. The Guardian headline tells us that “Legal challenges to infrastructure plans to be blocked in Starmer growth push”. Read more
Sutherland’s leading councillor has described the Scottish Government’s decision to give the go-ahead to the Strath Oykel wind warm as a “a severe disappointment”. Cllr Richard Gale, who represents the East Sutherland and Edderton ward and who is chairman of Sutherland County Committee, made the comments at a meeting of Read more