I wish to draw attention to the error in last week’s Barrhead News article ‘Windfarm claims kick up a storm in village’. The information contained in this article was incorrectly copied from my letter which was published in the same edition of the paper. I was quoted as saying ‘the Read more
The creation of a new windfarm scheme in west Perthshire could so change the landscape that 16 individual community councils will be involved in a mammoth consultation process. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/application-for-major-wind-turbine-development-expected-in-perthshire-1.626916
Wind farm reliance could see costly electricity bills and winter power cuts Experts claim it will lead to costs being passed on to consumers Next winter’s electricity production margins are at an ‘all time low’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2793503/homeowners-face-1-000-increase-electricity-bills-folly-relying-wind-power-cost-homes-26bn-2030.html#ixzz3GDGRm6J7
ENERGY sources should be cheap and reliable but wind power is neither. http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/522937/Daily-Express-wind-power-tax-cutting-Tories-English-devolution?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daily-express-express-comment+%28Daily+Express+%3A%3A+Express+Comment+Feed%29
Around £50,000 of damage has been caused by vandals who caused a 230-foot mast, put up as part of a proposed wind farm plan, to crash to the ground in the hills above Greenock. Windfarm company 2020 Renewables are offering a reward for information leading to an arrest after their Read more
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) – the UK’s largest renewable energy body – and the Solar Trade Association (STA) have decided to formally end their affiliation after three and a half years of successful http://www.scottishenergynews.com/uk-renewable-energy-and-solar-power-associations-agree-to-separate/
There is perhaps no greater nightmare for government and industry than the spectre of blackouts. In the 1970s, rolling power cuts caused by coal strikes led to the three-day working week and the eventual collapse of government. Since then, keeping the lights on has been a priority. But it’s a Read more
Cheaper energy from fossil fuels can help poorest out of their desperate situation WHETHER Alan Sangster’s dream of the future (Letters, October 13) is a flight of fancy I cannot tell. Certainly, a continental super-grid gathering and distributing renewable energy across Europe sounds as if it would be a grand Read more