October 2025

Unions welcome the new plan but warn funding for training does not equate to jobs, saying they won’t materialise without further investment, nor measures to revitalise the country’s dwindling manufacturing capacity. Press release can be found here     https://news.sky.com/story/oil-and-gas-workers-offered-cash-to-retrain-in-major-plan-for-future-clean-energy-workforce-13452705?fbclid=IwY2xjawNhdyZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmMvAR0WUcHaH4ld3Y_FxVYpUxCZUjWk1UOQduS7aI8H72k1QnmQObO0CKvn_aem_W7hoLWucgnAQifbtJVQQ5w

With the announcement of another wind farm in their glen, the owner of a collection of luxury holiday lodges says it has turned him into a “proud nimby.” Mike Spencer-Nairn left Jersey for the Highlands in 2005 with his wife Pawana, who he met while travelling the Himalayan regions of Read more

Another day, another broken promise from this hapless Government. Well, not quite yet perhaps, but Ed Miliband’s pledge to [bring down household energy bills is as good as dead after it was rubbished by some of the industry’s most influential figures in devastating fashion. Much to his embarrassment, Miliband’s pledge Read more

Dear Editor ‘Net Zero’ politicians and the BBC’s increasingly demented Justin Rowlatt – ‘renewables overtake coal’ – boasting about our ‘world-leading renewable generation’ display breathtaking ignorance. With our National Grid teetering on the verge of blackouts, here’s a startling fact for the gullible – wind turbines do not produce any Read more

Scottish Power Energy Networks (Spen) has been accused of “obstructing the public’s right to information” after the Information Commissioner ruled it had breached regulations. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that the company appeared to be seeking to “obfuscate” concerns about a major power project. It came after a member Read more

AFTER some three years of plans, public meetings, promotions and protests, the most impactful north-east Scotland electricity project in generations – the Spittal-Beauly 400kV overhead line – is set for official consideration and then go ahead. But Highland community councillors, campaigners and local people are far from lying low with Read more

I occasionally have a glance at the UK grid supply. In the past two weeks there were at least two days when wind’s contribution was only about 1 per cent of requirement and one day when it was 50 per cent. How on earth would we cope with with such Read more

Scottish oil fields, wind farms and airports could be targeted in future incursions by Russian drones, security experts have warned. It comes amid rising tension in Europe as Vladimir Putin has repeatedly tested NATO’s air defences. Last Wednesday, EU chiefs met in Copenhagen where they backed plans to build a “drone Read more