A politically sensitive part of the latest report by the world’s leading authority on climate change was gutted at the insistence of government officials, one of the study’s authors has revealed. http://www.thegwpf.org/ipcc-report-was-watered-down-by-government-officials-lead-author-confirms/
The people who worry about energy bills, the squeezed middle, have the most to lose and the least to gain when it comes to Tory announcements on the subject of onshore wind turbines. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tory-energy-policy-is-designed-for-the-few-not-the-many-9292294.html?origin=internalSearch
We may think we are so used to politicians trying to pull the wool over our eyes that we accept that this is just what politicians do. But we are still right to think that deliberately trying to deceive people is wrong – on some occasions more than others. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10789454/Why-does-Ed-Davey-want-to-keep-us-in-the-dark.html
Three universities are to help Scotland meet its carbon emission reduction targets through a number of new cutting edge projects. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/-20-million-for-carbon-reduction-bd5.aspx
Local conservationists have warned wildlife will suffer if the council gives the green light to a wind farm application south of Jedburgh http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/lifestyle-leisure/outdoors/concerns-over-green-hairstreak-survival-at-proposed-wind-farm-1-3385298
By Graeme Strachan A community council has urged the local authority to reject an Angus wind turbine application. Ferryden and Craig Community Council chairman Gordon Paterson has lodged a complaint against the construction of three turbines at Rossie Moor. A string of objections has already been registered following the application Read more
THEY stalk the countryside like giant Martian machines from HG Wells’ science-fiction classic The War Of The Worlds. http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/472207/At-last-the-Tories-admit-wind-farms-are-a-lot-of-hot-air
SPARE a thought for Tory environment spokesman Sir Jamie McGrigor MSP as he scrabbles to secure a windfarm on his Argyll estate that could bag him £8million. Nearby residents are up in arms about the proposal at Ardchonnel, and council officials are against it. However some locals have kindly Read more