The Ministry of Defence has won its fight to prevent three Hebridean crofters from building wind turbines. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/mod-wins-fight-to-block-wind-turbines-on-crofts.25475999
CONCERNS have been raised by residents in the Bonhill area after a planning application was lodged for a wind turbine on a green belt. http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news/thisweek/articles/2014/10/01/511330-plans-for-areas-first-wind-turbine-in-alexandria/
Alastair Davis Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has a role in funding the UK’s largest community-owned commercial-scale wind farm, Beinn Ghrideag in the Western Isles. Led by former MP Calum MacDonald, the 9MW project breaks new ground in community-owned renewables projects previously been kept small scale as community groups struggled to Read more
The table on P33 (Appendix B) is well worth a look. Nowhere comes close to East Renfrewshire for density of turbines per square kilometer. SushineShowersandGalesReport_FINAL
AN EXTENSIVE project that will see an underground power cable run through the heart of the area, carrying electricity from a huge offshore wind farm has been approved. http://www.banffshire-journal.co.uk/News/Offshore-wind-farm-cable-plans-get-council-green-light-29092014.htm
Wind farms could cause people living nearby to go deaf, a new study claims. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2775222/Could-living-near-wind-farm-make-DEAF-Low-frequency-hum-damage-inner-ear-experts-warn.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Simon Bain Business Correspondent/Personal Finance Editor I & H BROWN, founded 50 years ago after two brothers bought a disused Fife aerodrome, is celebrating the anniversary with a record £38m order book. The Perthshire-based group has won half of that in the English civil engineering market, and is progressing plans Read more
IF nothing else, Donald Trump’s explanation why Scots opted not to back independence confirmed his reputation as one of the most egoistic men on the planet. Interviewed a day after the referendum, the blowhard billionaire said that, had Alex Salmond not “littered” the country with “horrible wind turbines”, he might Read more