ScottishPower, the UK’s largest generator of wind power, has said it sees plenty of room for expansion in Scotland despite the opposition the turbines attract. The Spanish-owned group has approval for it to raise its UK onshore wind capacity from the current 1,600 megawatts to more than 2,000MW — most Read more
The huge opportunities presented by granting of consent for major windfarms off the Fife and Angus coasts will be debated at Scottish Renewables’ Offshore Wind Conference next month. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/business/news/opportunities-in-focus-at-scottish-renewables-offshore-wind-conference-1.755164
“Scotland rules the waves,” Alex Salmond declared in 2011, as the Scottish government unveiled a high-tech electricity generating device built by one of the nation’s wave energy companies. Three years later, the country’s hopes of leading the world in tapping the power of the sea is under serious threat. FirstFT Read more
Former US President George W Bush may be the most unlikely name yet enlisted in the fight against a major windfarm development on the Angus/Perthshire border. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/george-w-bush-may-help-fight-against-major-windfarm-development-in-tayside-1.755826
RSPB Scotland is urging people in Dumfries and Galloway to have their say on plans for a wind farm on moorland 4km (2.49 miles) north of Sanquhar. The plan for the Spango (Mid Ring) wind farm proposes erecting 14 turbines, each of them 145m (475ft) tall. But the charity said Read more
The proposal to build an eight turbine High Cumnock Community Wind Farm, situated on land between Cumnock and New Cumnock, was strongly backed by the local community groups http://www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/roundup/articles/2014/12/24/519945-wind-firm-may-lodge-appeal-against-refusal/
RSPB Scotland is urging people in Dumfries and Galloway to have their say on plans for a damaging wind farm, before the public consultation closes on January 5, 2015. http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/387814-last-chance-for-objections-to-damaging-wind-farm-proposals-near-sanquhar?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=News
RSPB activists advance concealed agendas under the banner of uncontroverisal causes http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/11291324/Britain-would-be-big-enough-for-the-hen-harrier-and-the-grouse-if-it-werent-for-politics.html