If Ed Miliband can deliver his net zero vision, a windy day should be a good day for Britain. Under the Energy Secretary’s clean power plans, it should mean lots of turbines – mostly in Scotland – spinning furiously and generating plentiful green power for the electricity grid, in theory. Read more
LORD of the Rings is about 1,750 pages long, depending which edition you read. If you sat down and tried to read it for eight hours a day, how long might it take? One month? If you then had to write an educated analysis and critique of it as a Read more
Scottish Borders Council’s Planning & Building Standards Committee met this morning to consider an application for the Ditcher Law Wind Farm on land north, south and west of Vineleaf Cottage in Oxton. Councillors were advised by council officers against raising an objection to the proposed wind farm despite acknowledgement of Read more
One single turbine from the Viking wind farm connects Shetland to global, national and local impacts that are often overlooked. This is the first part of a small series of articles, contributed by Erin Rizzato Devlin as part of our PowerShift project, that investigates the challenges of the transition to Read more