BP is plotting a $2bn (£1.5bn) sale of its American onshore wind energy business as the oil giant backtracks on its green energy ambitions after an investor revolt. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/16/bp-launch-2bn-sale-onshore-wind-business-green-energy/
THE widely-held view that renewable energy is cheap is a delusion which is so effectively promoted by the renewables industry that most of the public have been duped into a belief of what is no more than a myth. That we need to cease our dependency on fossil fuels as Read more
Developer Low Carbon has plans to build High Brenfield Wind Farm on Brenfield Hill west of Ardrishaig, near Inverneill. The company previously met with Ardrishaig Community Council following a first round of public exhibitions in November last year and is now preparing for a second round of exhibitions next month. Read more
An excellent guide to Judicial Review. https://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PD_JUDICIAL_FEB20.pdf
Shetland residents say the Viking wind farm’s 103 turbines are a monstrosity that’s ruined their landscape In its first two months the owners have already been paid £3m to NOT produce electricityhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13844467/Shetland-faces-second-coming-Vikings-form-wind-farms.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawFSM45leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHU20FolPMQ1n8COO-2slyEKbJxdqh_ILKmjh_Q1PT4D2yWoT4FRwz_TCpA_aem__AyxMOk0VuWY7082c9keHQ
The Government’s green industrial strategy is “outdated” and does not do enough to create jobs in Scotland, unions have said. The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has responded to the strategy document published on Tuesday, saying it merely hands natural resources to international companies. Designed to “place Scotland at the Read more
Those on the UK climate gravy train keep telling us what we should do to cut greenhouse gasses but never reveal what other countries are doing – or rather, not doing. Germany has approved a new gas project. The US, the world’s largest oil producer, pay slip service to Net Read more
First Minister John Swinney says he hopes to avoid the £460m raid on a long-term investment fund announced by Finance Secretary Shona Robison to balance the books this year. He said so as he officially opened the onshore maintenance base in Buckie for one of Scotland’s biggest offshore windfarms – Read more