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
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Debate: Ensuring that Communities are at the Heart of the Electricity Consenting Process https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/meeting-of-the-parliament-accessible-january-22-2025?clip_start=16%3A01%3A27&clip_end=17%3A10%3A07&fbclid=IwY2xjawH_hyFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHf0ecqm0up2L3ZhtAL8RRIDzd0RJlNBl8iSF5SsR7W4uSctzrzxb9V0xyQ_aem_R4OmPtwp0vxZogg-9pe4yw
Scotland has its own legal and Judicial Review system. Major infrastructure projects like nuclear power stations, railway lines and wind farms will be built faster under new planning rules, the government has pledged. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Nimby (Not in My Back Yard) “blockers” of major infrastructure projects Read more
PE1864: Increase the ability of communities to influence planning decisions for onshore windfarms This Petition has now been live for four years during which time there has been a change in English planning policy. That is irrelevant; the aim of this Petition is to increase the ability of communities to Read more
Folly of the highest order STUART Campbell (Letters, January 20) writes that “producing electricity from the wind is dramatically cheaper than, for instance, gas, which is currently the main means of generating electricity in England” while going on to bemoan our high electricity costs. It’s a myth (but regrettably Read more
There is a bill going through Parliament at the moment that wishes to impose yet more net zero madness on the UK and, by establishing a Climate and Nature Assembly, will make decisions on our future that bypass parliament and our elected representatives. This bill, imposing a Green dictatorship on Read more
MULTIPLE Scottish environmental charities have called for the SNP Government to address an “abject failure” to take environmental crimes to court. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24873689.charities-urge-government-address-environmental-justice-failures/?ref=eb&nid=1948&block=article_block_a&u=e8b033e42af0943ce7652c678e4fb452&date=210125