Anti-wind arm campaigners are bracing themselves for the most important battle in their long fight to keep turbines OUT of their community. Dalmellington Community Council and Dark Sky Observatory boss Mark Gibson, along with other activists, will attend East Ayrshire Council’s special planning meeting on Friday. And they are praying Read more
An application to erect 27 wind turbines in New Cumnock has been passed to the Scottish Government after the developer failed to include a full study on the impact it would have. E.ON UK Renewables submitted the application to the East Ayrshire Planning Committee at a meeting on Friday to Read more
A WIND turbine at the Lecht ski centre and a solar energy project on a Perthshire farm are amongst the increasing number of new independent renewable energy projects. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/independent-renewable-energy-generation-schemes-on-the-rise-in-scotland.24643721
The threat to humanity from drug-resistant infections is worse than that of climate change, a group of Britain’s most eminent medical experts warned yesterday as they called for a global body to be created to tackle the crisis. Climate Change Not As Bad As Antibiotic Resistance, Medical Experts Claim/GWPF
Fracking in the US has led to a greater reduction in carbon emissions than all the wind turbines and solar panels across the entire globe put together. This is the stark fact presented at a meeting at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week. http://www.oilandgasonline.com/doc/u-s-fracking-has-carbon-more-whole-world-s-wind-solar-0001
Plans have been submitted for a 24 turbine windfarm near Loch Ericht in a remote area on the north-east edge of Rannoch Moor. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/272755/plans-submitted-for-windfarm-on-edge-of-rannoch-moor/
Plans to construct a wind turbine over-shadowing the 4000-year-old Duddo Stone Circle have been blocked by a Government minister. http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local-news/all-news/turbine-permission-withdrawn-1-3464120
Opponents of a proposed Greenock wind farm today criticised claims that cutting the number of turbines would make a big difference to how it looks. Developers 2020 have produced a new photo montage, published last week in the Tele, right, showing how the Clyde Muirshiel Park wind farm would look Read more