January 27, 2026

More on last week’s good news. Controversial plans to build a wind farm near Watten have been brought to an end, with developers withdrawing their application after aviation safety concerns rendered the project unviable. Despite campaigns against the proposal locally, it was an objection from Highlands and Islands Airports Limited Read more

Scotsman letters John Mclellan asks “Why build wind farms local people don’t want only to pay them billions to stop producing electricity” (Scotsman, 24 January). The real question should be: why build wind farms at all? It is shocking when government ministers don’t know that wind turbines do not produce Read more