By Scott McCulloch The Scottish Government has approved plans for a 22-turbine wind farm development in West Lothian. The Harburnhead development, near West Calder, is expected will support up to 80 jobs during construction, and when complete will have a generating capacity of up to 66 megawatts of electricity – Read more
Plans to build a major wind farm in Shetland have been given the go-ahead by the courts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-28232269
By Paul Cargill A windfarm developer has again been accused of handing out “bribes” to hush up potential critics of its plans in Perthshire. Banks Renewables, the company behind a bid to build the biggest turbines the Big County has ever seen on the Bandirran Estate near Balbeggie, recently gave Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent MOUNTAINEERING leaders are objecting to plans to erect a wind farm near Rannoch Moor, fearing it could cause damage to a landscape that has a “special place in people’s hearts”. The Mountaineering Council of Scotland claimed the Talladh-a-Bheithe project would involve 24 turbines 125 metres tall, Read more
The dispute over windpark development on some of Germany’s most idyllic landscapes is heating up rapidly and massively. And should the dispute continue on its current trajectory, it won’t be long before the ugly contraptions get stopped for good. – http://notrickszone.com/2014/07/07/green-industry-suspected-of-red-kite-cleansing-to-clear-the-way-for-windpark-permitting/
Offshore windfarm developers have unveiled the proposed route of a £300million power line which they want to bury under rural Aberdeenshire. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/07/offshore-windfarm-developers-reveal-300million-power-line-route/
Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, is now the head of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. So when global warming policy is debated, he has sometimes been invited to debate the issue on television and radio, often with climate scientists. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/andrewlilico/100027585/lord-lawson-the-climate-and-the-bbc-whos-the-real-expert/
The U.S., European Union and 12 other governments in the World Trade Organization have opened negotiations on a trade deal aimed at ending tariffs on environmental goods such as wind turbines and solar panels. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-08/talks-open-to-end-tariffs-on-wind-turbines-water-filters.html